HP oem activation

I have a 2 month old HP tx2 notebook. It activated fine when firs
booted. Used it abouy a month and IE crashed with a BSOD, and upo
recovery I have a notice on the bottom of the desktop that it says thi
copy of windows in not genuine. When I reboot it says I must activate
When I try it fails and the only options are new product key or contac
HP. I called HP and they said to use the key off the bottom of th
computer which does not work. They then want me to do a complet
reinstall which is quite unacceptible with all the work it took to ge
this new machine loaded to work with. Is there any way out of this shor
of starting over? Can i buy a new license and be sure it is going t
take. Buying a new copy of home premium unfair but is way better tha
all the work I would have to do otherwise. The OS is home premium 6
bit. I would not want to install a new copy because of the driver issue
(touchsmart), I just want to use the key
When I try to activate I get

Buy new product key onlin

Try a different product ke

Contact Hewlett-Packard to help resolve this proble

Have tried option 2 and 3 to no avail. I would try option 1 if I coul
be assured it would work without loss of data. HP says to reinstall th
OS. They told me Microsoft does not support OEM installs. Why not? Ther
is no phone option.

when I try to input a new key I get an 0xC004E003 error

Updates work fine and all my software works as well.The deskto
background does not work and it has the not genuine at the right botto
corner. There does not seem to be a count down timer either

Thank
Ste

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Stew57

I have the install disk that came with the computer as well as the imag
on the HD. I would rather not have to start from scratch however an
would be willing to buy another copy if I could be assured that i
would activate without a reinstall. My vista is the original shippe
with the HP tx2 that was paid for when I bought the laptop so I do hav
a genuine copy. I don't know what "stop trying to wrought microsoft
means

Ste

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Stew57

ok I get you, sorry, insert the disc, restart, boot from disc, clic
repair, see if that help

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alexdagr8est <> wrote:

>
>ok I get you, sorry, insert the disc, restart, boot from disc, click
>repair, see if that helps

If you're going to be here a lot, you'd do better if you would quote
what you are replying to.

Stew57 wrote:

>
> I have a 2 month old HP tx2 notebook. It activated fine when first
> booted. Used it abouy a month and IE crashed with a BSOD, and upon
> recovery I have a notice on the bottom of the desktop that it says this
> copy of windows in not genuine. When I reboot it says I must activate.
> When I try it fails and the only options are new product key or contact
> HP. I called HP and they said to use the key off the bottom of the
> computer which does not work. They then want me to do a complete
> reinstall which is quite unacceptible with all the work it took to get
> this new machine loaded to work with. Is there any way out of this short
> of starting over? Can i buy a new license and be sure it is going to
> take. Buying a new copy of home premium unfair but is way better than
> all the work I would have to do otherwise. The OS is home premium 64
> bit. I would not want to install a new copy because of the driver issues
> (touchsmart), I just want to use the key.
> When I try to activate I get:
>
>
> Buy new product key online
>
>
> Try a different product key
>
>
> Contact Hewlett-Packard to help resolve this problem
>
> Have tried option 2 and 3 to no avail. I would try option 1 if I could
> be assured it would work without loss of data. HP says to reinstall the
> OS. They told me Microsoft does not support OEM installs. Why not? There
> is no phone option.
>
> when I try to input a new key I get an 0xC004E003 error.
>
> Updates work fine and all my software works as well.The desktop
> background does not work and it has the not genuine at the right bottom
> corner. There does not seem to be a count down timer either.

1. Do not do a factory restore.
2. Back up your data *now* to external media (external hard drive, burn to
DVD).
3. The Microsoft Activation Hotline - (888) 571-2048

Also see - You may be prompted to activate Windows Vista on a computer on
which Windows Vista was already activated by a Volume License or OEM
installation
http://support.microsoft.com/default...kb;EN-US;93157

Malke
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