Activation required after installing SP2??

First off let me state I have a MSDN Universal license and have used Virtual
PC to create XP virtual machines to test with.

I decided to upgrade one of my virtual machines to SP2 and after reboot it
says it needs to activate the software. I found that odd as I had used the
key generated with my MSDN license to activate when I installed initially.
Activation failed and then I got to the screen to enter the product key and
when I enter my key it says its an incorrect product key.

Now I have seen some info on searches talking about Microsoft locking out
SP2 to hacked keys but it said there that SP2 wouldn't even install in those
cases so I know thats not the problem. Anyone else seen had this happen???

Doug;
Not entirely correct.
There are still CD keys blocked from installing the Service packs.

Did you try calling for activation?

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Doug Stichler" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> First off let me state I have a MSDN Universal license and have used
> Virtual
> PC to create XP virtual machines to test with.
>
> I decided to upgrade one of my virtual machines to SP2 and after
> reboot it
> says it needs to activate the software. I found that odd as I had
> used the
> key generated with my MSDN license to activate when I installed
> initially.
> Activation failed and then I got to the screen to enter the product
> key and
> when I enter my key it says its an incorrect product key.
>
> Now I have seen some info on searches talking about Microsoft
> locking out
> SP2 to hacked keys but it said there that SP2 wouldn't even install
> in those
> cases so I know thats not the problem. Anyone else seen had this
> happen???
>
>

I know there are keys blocked from installing the packs...but the pack
installed ok.

Well when I type the key in it says the product key is incorrect like its
not for that version of software.

Doesn't matter to me anyway now as I already created a new virual machine
and disk installed xp and then sp2 installed fine so not sure what happened
when I installed on the other.

Just thought I'd let it be known that this could come up after it had gone
through installation. When it restarted I got the screen asking about
automatic updates and then it gave me the normal login screen and then when
I tried to log in got the activation problem. Not worth my time trying to
figure out why.

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Doug;
> Not entirely correct.
> There are still CD keys blocked from installing the Service packs.
>
> Did you try calling for activation?
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
>
>
> "Doug Stichler" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
> > First off let me state I have a MSDN Universal license and have used
> > Virtual
> > PC to create XP virtual machines to test with.
> >
> > I decided to upgrade one of my virtual machines to SP2 and after
> > reboot it
> > says it needs to activate the software. I found that odd as I had
> > used the
> > key generated with my MSDN license to activate when I installed
> > initially.
> > Activation failed and then I got to the screen to enter the product
> > key and
> > when I enter my key it says its an incorrect product key.
> >
> > Now I have seen some info on searches talking about Microsoft
> > locking out
> > SP2 to hacked keys but it said there that SP2 wouldn't even install
> > in those
> > cases so I know thats not the problem. Anyone else seen had this
> > happen???
> >
> >
>
>