Windows Activation

[BugenhagenXIII]

Having just installed a new motherboard, I try to log into windows and it asks me to activate windows. I click yes, and a window comes up saying windows is already activated. I click ok, and it logs me off. Any further attempt to log in yeilds the same results. I have no clue what

[WolfmanNCSU]

Have you tried throwing in your windows disk and running a repair install?

[HereticPB]

Sounds like it locked him/her out.

[Eidorian]

Maybe Microsoft wants you to buy another license? I'm surprised that you didn't reinstall Windows after you put in that new motherboard.

[WolfmanNCSU]

In the future, you may want to reinstall when making a large hardware change. I also know a lot of people that use sysprep http://www.appdeploy.com/downloads/detail.asp?id=258

It will remove some of the HAL settings that will allow you to completly move a HDD into a new system if you wanted too. I have had sucess with it, but I have heard it still BSOD sometimes.

You wont have to buy a new licence from MS, you can call and they can send you a key that unlocks (as long as you key is not black listed). They will even unlock some dirty keys too.

[Garfunkel]

you should reinstall after you put in that new MB

[BugenhagenXIII]

I'm surprised that you didn't reinstall Windows after you put in that new motherboard.

Yeah, my motherboard has been dead for aroun 3-4 months, and I finally decided to fix it, kind of a spur of the moment type thing. Obviously, I didn't think it through. I have an old harddrive lying around somewhere, I'll reformat it and use my ubuntu live cd to back up my files, then reinstall windows.