In message , John
Rumm writes
On 04/08/2010 00:00, geoff wrote:
In message , John
Rumm writes

To be fair, it often does not need to go as far as speaking to a rep -
usually a reactivation via touch tone fone will fix it on a
motherboard upgrade - especially if the original has been activated
for some time.


Ploughman killed my PC by proxy

It died last night from dodgy caps

Bought a new mbd today and it decided I needed to reactivate windows

.... which I did over the internet - quite straightforward and painless

Yup, often works. The gotcha is when it insists that it wants to
reactivate *now" before you can go any further, and the system does not
recognise your network card. Hence you can't activate on line, and yet
it won't let you do anything useful to load drivers so that you could!
(sometimes you get three days to activate - but the logic for which it
chooses does not seem consistent)

That happened to me a couple of years ago - managed to sort ot by an
automated phone call

This time I first tried to use the phone number so I didn't get the
activation required notice coming up all the way through the driver
installation, but the string of numbers that I had to type into the
phone just weren't there (type in the code numbers below ... what 'kin
code numbers)


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geoff