Bought Vista 64 OEM from OcUK the other day. I understood going into it that this is only good for the board you are installing on. Fine. So installed it, set it to activate automatically which it did I assume as no notification came up. Now for various reasons I need to reinstall. Hardware is the same. Will it activate again or do I have to ring some call centre ?
Vista Reinstall and Activation
- Thread starter Flanno
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Bummer...This seems rather annoying. So I installed Vista yesterday, will be reinstalling tommorrow on same machine (nothing has changed in the hardware). And MS don't know that ? So this means I have to ring up, possibly be put on hold and explain the situation to someone ?
Or was your reason for the failure to activate due to some hardware i.e. board changing ?
thanks
Or was your reason for the failure to activate due to some hardware i.e. board changing ?
thanks
Well, I will know tommorrow.
Thanks for the help guys.
It just seems silly to me. When it activates the first time surely the activation program generates a hash key based on your mac address and other assorted hardware and sends that back to MS. How easy would it be to check this without having to annoy the customer ?
Thanks for the help guys.
It just seems silly to me. When it activates the first time surely the activation program generates a hash key based on your mac address and other assorted hardware and sends that back to MS. How easy would it be to check this without having to annoy the customer ?