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XP activation no installation id
Name: bluecjh Date: April 30, 2006 at 11:01:11 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
I have put in a new mother board and processor, psu memory etc. Windows requests activation but i receive no on screen "installation id", does this imply that windows can't create the hardware hash code and that perhaps a key piece of hardware is missing?
Name: XpUser Date: April 30, 2006 at 12:24:33 Pacific
Reply:
You need to boot to Windows XP CD to reinstal Windows.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 2
Name: bluecjh Date: April 30, 2006 at 12:54:43 Pacific
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i am past the install, i am trying to activate.
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: April 30, 2006 at 12:57:35 Pacific
Reply:
Is your XP genuine?
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Response Number 4
Name: bluecjh Date: April 30, 2006 at 13:11:39 Pacific
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ep , got to the elusive live person at ms, but on screen where there should be and installation id to pass to Call Center it's blank, they can't help, they asked me to reboot, which makes no difference.
So I assume that there is something wrong with my pc set up.
I persued this through the microsoft site.
The istallation id is made up from the product key and a hash key, there is a method GetInstallationId() which yields nothing on my machine, comes up blank? i created a script calling this method and it yields '0'.
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Response Number 5
Name: bluecjh Date: April 30, 2006 at 13:20:45 Pacific
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that's a yep. According to the documentation the hardware hash is derived from the following hardware identities
1 Display Adapter 2 SCSI Adapter 3 IDE Adapter 4 Network Adapter MAC Address 5 RAM Amount Range (i.e. 0-64mb, 64-128mb, etc) 6 Processor Type 7 Processor Serial Number 8 Hard Drive Device 9 Hard Drive Volume Serial Number 10 CD—ROM / CD-RW / DVD-ROM 11 "Dockable"
i am assuming that post my hardware change a value is missing
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Response Number 6
Name: ham30 Date: April 30, 2006 at 13:31:54 Pacific
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"i am past the install"
If that was not a clean install, I hope you did some saving before changing the hardware. Because I think it's gonna take a clean install now.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!!!
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Response Number 7
Name: steppenwolf1 Date: April 30, 2006 at 14:44:57 Pacific
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kim kommado says xp will not install on priates versions
is it a pirate version?
as of monday may1
http://www.komando.com/
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Response Number 8
Name: bluecjh Date: May 1, 2006 at 01:21:28 Pacific
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no it is genuine
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Response Number 9
Name: bluecjh Date: May 1, 2006 at 01:26:22 Pacific
Reply:
this was based on a clean install, backups not a problem
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