I'm having to contact MS to reactivate. After changing GPU!!!

[jas72]

it could be your phone line.

Some people are still connected using old exchanges or have poor wiring from exchange to their house. Since it relies on touch dialing to know the numbers perhaps there is too much interference on the line for it to work properly.

 

[bigjimmyauk]

confused here myself i've installed windows 7, 3 times in the last month and used internet activation and it worked fine i've swapped out my gpu twice,flashed bios once,put os on one drive then formatted then put it on another larger one then my overclock corrupted that OS then switched to yet another HDD and next week should be shifting to an SSD not once has it asked me to phone anyone it always just connected with the internet and away it went. win 7 home retail.

thats said last year i must have used the service at least 10 times for win XP and it never failed once always worked first time and only takes about 4 minutes to tap everything in

 

[silworth]

You must have fat fingers

Or the inability to read, listen, write, type... or a combination.

 

[NathanE]

Are you sure it wouldn't allow for Internet Activation which takes 2 mouse clicks and 20 seconds of waiting?

When I upgraded my CPU that is all it needed for me.

 

[HarryPainful]

Perhaps the issue lies with the user. I've used the telephone system numerous times and not once has it failed.

Indeed, used this many times and it has worked 100% of the time.

 

[Eddie]

Are you sure it wouldn't allow for Internet Activation which takes 2 mouse clicks and 20 seconds of waiting?

When I upgraded my CPU that is all it needed for me.

Afaik, you have to actually try to activate it that way first before it'll tell you to phone up. Every time I reinstall I try to do the internet activation thing and it always tells me to phone up.

 

[Gepetto]

Or the inability to read, listen, write, type... or a combination.

As there is an absence of any smiley, I'd like to ask how you surmise that from my typing/writing/reading? Is there anything I've typed, anywhere on this Forum, that would lead you to believe that I am incapable of following a few simple instructions?

Assuming that you can't find any justification for your comments in my posts, what possible reason could you have to infer that I am an idiot that cannot read/listen/write/type etc.

As I have stated, I have tried the automated system, and it has not worked for me, Therefore I have had to wait on an operator every time I have re-activated my OS. This has taken substantially longer than the "less than 5 minutes" it seems to take the superior, self righteous posters on this thread.



P.S. No, Nathan, it was exactly as Shootist has said. I've pretty much had to follow the system all the way through, trying the various options, and, in the end, having to phone and be told I'm X number in the queue.

Quite frustrating, especially if it's going to happen every time I change a piece in my PC.

 

[Gepetto]

Indeed, used this many times and it has worked 100% of the time.

Lucky you.

 

[bigjimmyauk]

As there is an absence of any smiley, I'd like to ask how you surmise that from my typing/writing/reading? Is there anything I've typed, anywhere on this Forum, that would lead you to believe that I am incapable of following a few simple instructions?

Assuming that you can't find any justification for your comments in my posts, what possible reason could you have to infer that I am an idiot that cannot read/listen/write/type etc.

As I have stated, I have tried the automated system, and it has not worked for me, Therefore I have had to wait on an operator every time I have re-activated my OS. This has taken substantially longer than the "less than 5 minutes" it seems to take the superior, self righteous posters on this thread.



P.S. No, Nathan, it was exactly as Shootist has said. I've pretty much had to follow the system all the way through, trying the various options, and, in the end, having to phone and be told I'm X number in the queue.

Quite frustrating, especially if it's going to happen every time I change a piece in my PC.

not being disrespectful here but having to re-activate is a good thing it stops potential copies and frauds ableit not 100% fool proof it still keeps numbers lower.

let me say this if u just made a new piece of software that cost you 10k to make and someone copied it and posted it all over the web and you made 5k back you'd be pretty miffed but if you'd have had certain measures to prevent copyright first and you made 50k you'd be a happy chappy.

it's there for their own good and ours so just learn to deal with it and quit moaning

 

[mrk]

You must have fat fingers

Or hearing aids xD

 

[Gepetto]

not being disrespectful here but having to re-activate is a good thing it stops potential copies and frauds ableit not 100% fool proof it still keeps numbers lower.

I'm well aware of the economics, thanks. I rather think Mr Gates does quite well, but my copies are all genuine and paid for.

I had no problem tying an OS to a motherboard, but now to tie it (it appears) to other items in the PC as well (SSD and GPU are both mentioned in this thread) kinda muddies the waters slightly.

Can you now sell your copy of 7 with your GPU, if your MB and CPU go breasts uppermost? Assuming OEM, is it now tied to the GPU?

My big bugbear with this issue overall, is that it should be able to work out for itself that it doesn't need re-activation when a GPU/HDD is changed. I was going to upgrade my RAM, but now I'm wondering if I'll have to go through this activation process again when I do.

If the simple internet activation worked (in my case) I'd have no issue at all.

 

[HeX]

I changed my mobo, cpu, memory, and gpu...

Windows asked me to reactivate, I tried to do the internet activation, said it wasn't good enough and offered for me to either phone or re-enter my cd-key.

I chose the latter, retyped my cd-key, and bish bash bosh 20secs later all activated.

 

[mrk]

I'm well aware of the economics, thanks. I rather think Mr Gates does quite well, but my copies are all genuine and paid for.

I had no problem tying an OS to a motherboard, but now to tie it (it appears) to other items in the PC as well (SSD and GPU are both mentioned in this thread) kinda muddies the waters slightly.

Can you now sell your copy of 7 with your GPU, if your MB and CPU go breasts uppermost? Assuming OEM, is it now tied to the GPU?

My big bugbear with this issue overall, is that it should be able to work out for itself that it doesn't need re-activation when a GPU/HDD is changed. I was going to upgrade my RAM, but now I'm wondering if I'll have to go through this activation process again when I do.

If the simple internet activation worked (in my case) I'd have no issue at all.

So the phone activation system is not simple?

No OS is perfect, sometimes it will ask for re-activation due to the most simplest of changes. Some people have had to activate again just after installing a motherboard driver - no big issue.

As it's been mentioned it takes 5 minutes, it cannot go wrong unless you physically are at fault (heard or typed a wrong number).

Phone activation always works whether you're legitimately re-activating or not.

 

[Gepetto]

Phone activation always works whether you're legitimately re-activating or not.

Errr. Have you actually read my posts? No, it doesn't.

If it did, I wouldn't have to speak to customer services. It's not the first option I chose. Why on Earth it does not work for me I do not know. But, then again, why doesn't the "Internet Activation" work for me either?

 

[Gepetto]

I changed my mobo, cpu, memory, and gpu...

Windows asked me to reactivate, I tried to do the internet activation, said it wasn't good enough and offered for me to either phone or re-enter my cd-key.

I chose the latter, retyped my cd-key, and bish bash bosh 20secs later all activated.

I wish, HeX. I did that too.

Maybe I should have just phoned customer services in the first place, and saved myself the frustration of trying the options that don't seem to work for me. But, hey ho, I always think that it'll have been sorted since I tried it last!

 

[Sp00n]

Errr. Have you actually read my posts? No, it doesn't.

If it did, I wouldn't have to speak to customer services. It's not the first option I chose. Why on Earth it does not work for me I do not know. But, then again, why doesn't the "Internet Activation" work for me either?

Usually because they want to check to make sure you're only installing it on one pc or whatever the license allows.

Doesn't stop you from blatently lying to the m$ representative though.

 

[Bane]

I thought the retail version was meant to be less fussy about hardware changes than the OEM version.

 

[meths]

To the OP - The retail version isn't tied to the motherboard or any other component in the system but the OEM versions are.

 

[Gepetto]

To the OP - The retail version isn't tied to the motherboard or any other component in the system but the OEM versions are.

That's a point I hadn't thought of Meths.

One of the earlier posts referred to a pre-built system which, I would imagine, would have an OEM OS. I wonder if a GPU change would trigger a re-activation need on an OEM system. Maybe not, if it is tied to the MB.

Anyway, I tend to agree with post 2, at this stage. It's a bit of a nuisance (nothing more) when it takes longer to re-activate my OS, than it does to change a Graphics Card.

I honestly believe that Windows 7 should be able to detect when a re-activation is necessary, and when it is not. And before the self righteous post that Windows obviously does deem a re-activation is necessary, it shouldn't be, not for a GPU change.

 

[cokecan]

Well not forgetting a GPU change is a pretty big hardware change....without a GPU the system is essentially un-usable (ignoring potential integrated graphics or RDP etc). I don't think it's unreasonable for it to ask for re-activation after such a hardware change at all.

What exactly on the phone system failed out of curiousity? I've used it hundreds of times before and only once had to be put through to an actual person who might I add, was very helpful and got me activated pretty damn quickly