Let the Vista'mares begin

Cozman

Cozman

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Hi all

now before anyone gets hot under the collar this is slightly tongue in cheek as well as a serious personal experience ...

OK got my Ultimate OEM x64 on Monday and has been installed since Monday lunchtime , however , Vista appears to be just a tad over sensitive as ive had 2 flags for reactivation for hardware changes since.. LOL .. i shouldnt laugh but it really is absurd when you read the facts ...

Flag 1 .. occured Tuesday afternoon , everything had been 100% OK but as peeps do i was fiddling around (in the BIOS) and decided to turn off unused items , now the motherboard (Abit AB9 Pro) has dual lan so as only using one i turn one off and that was only change i made. Reboot into Vista and WHAM pop-up "your copy of Vista has been deactivated due to significant hardware changes" ... WTF so i tried reactivation (online) and said copy was already in use and would require phone call .. i just thought be easier to restore an image i had made and all was sorted .. sheesh

Flag 2 .. yesterday evening .. having installed Vista originally on a Raid0 config (2x250Gb SATA II drives) and suffering a few glitches i thought no probs just unraid and reinstall no hassles .. sheesh how wrong i was , unraided reinstalled vista & went to reactivate WHAM this copy is already in use you need to reactivate over the phone due to significant hardware changes :o ... again i re-raided the drives and have re-installed the image i had saved & all is cool

now maybe just me .. im usually unlucky like this .. or could be that Vista is ultra sensitive but disabling an onboard lan shouldnt flag a hardware change although i guess raid to non-raid is more noticable again surely they aret going to flag the slightest thing like that as could end up every little thing means a phone reactivation

Just my experience over last 3 days not a rant but maybe a warning to others .. anyone else had a reactivation flag yet ??? for a stupid thing

Cozman
 
Why didn't you just phone up? Would have been a lot easier...

All you've got to say is that you disabled an unused NIC in the BIOS and they'll sort you out in 2 minutes.
 
yeh but no but yeh!!!! FFS you should be able to tinker with the settings! i for one hate explaining myself over a phone esp over trivial stuff like this! i wonder how bad the retail version is in respect of having to reactivate it after tinkering!
 
Vista doesn't require you to activate it until it has been installed for 30 days - why in such a rush to activate?
 
Thats why i buy full retail or Upgrade versions. I consider OEM to be a waste of money especially when i know i will upgrade in a years time. I feel sorry for everybody who has bought the OEM version as they will only need to buy another copy which will cost them another £120.
 
Freakfish1 said:
Thats why i buy full retail or Upgrade versions. I consider OEM to be a waste of money especially when i know i will upgrade in a years time. I feel sorry for everybody who has bought the OEM version as they will only need to buy another copy which will cost them another £120.
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Depends on how strict Microsoft will be on the re-activation process. If they are as slack as they are with XP then having an OEM version might be ok. I know it will be classed as not doing the right thing but i guess people will try to re-activate the Vista OEM?
 
the op's changes hardly constitute significant hardware changes

seems totally ridiculous that i would be required to reactivate for every little thing
 
TC1 said:
Depends on how strict Microsoft will be on the re-activation process. If they are as slack as they are with XP then having an OEM version might be ok. I know it will be classed as not doing the right thing but i guess people will try to re-activate the Vista OEM?
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I think that’s the point of the OP post. To me he's suggesting that the OEM activations in Vista aren't going to be as lenient as they were in XP.

I have no qualms in buying a pc and vista ultimate for that machine. I'll simply sell the machine with Vista on it and buy Vista again x amount of years later. My average pc lasts three years so it isn’t a problem for me.
 
Hi

well i did say was tongue in cheek too ...

i dont have a problem to phone activate , but i do have a problem that something so silly would require it , the whole OS is gonna be a pain in the neck if requires phone activation for such silly things as disabling an onboard NIC or changing the OS from one SATA controller to another or unraiding

i just wonder if changing anything will bring the reactivate pop-up , reason i activated early was i installed bare minimum Vista activated it then took a drive image for any future problems , didnt expect 2 reactivates in 2 days for what most would consider minor configuration changes rather than actual hardware changes

oh well hope they dont flag me putting an image back on .. lol

hardly a step forward in encouraging non-pirate software when they create an atmosphere of annoyance and aggrevasion with their software activations

Cozman
 
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