Vista activation problem

Hello, i just bought a new pc with an oem vista key, everything workt fine
until yesturday when i updated my BIOS (with msi live updater) to v 1.60.
Now vista says i need to register my vista key, mentioning something about
hardware changes, but the onlything i changed is my bios version, i think it
was from v 1.30. So with my oem key is "alredy in use" : / what am i soppuse
to do?

Daniel

system: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4600+ / MSI K9N Neo / nvidia 8800

Activate Vista by phone. When you flashed the bios you essentially installed
a new M/B, as far as the bios signature goes. Vista will pick up on this. It
has no way of knowing that you "didn't" install Vista on a second computer.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Daniel" <> wrote in message
news:82F4EE99-A7BC-43D0-B596-...
> Hello, i just bought a new pc with an oem vista key, everything workt fine
> until yesturday when i updated my BIOS (with msi live updater) to v 1.60.
> Now vista says i need to register my vista key, mentioning something about
> hardware changes, but the onlything i changed is my bios version, i think
> it
> was from v 1.30. So with my oem key is "alredy in use" : / what am i
> soppuse
> to do?
>
> Daniel
>
> system: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4600+ / MSI K9N Neo / nvidia 8800

This is a known bug with Windows Vista. I believe this article will help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931573

Joshua

"Daniel" <> wrote in message
news:82F4EE99-A7BC-43D0-B596-...
> Hello, i just bought a new pc with an oem vista key, everything workt fine
> until yesturday when i updated my BIOS (with msi live updater) to v 1.60.
> Now vista says i need to register my vista key, mentioning something about
> hardware changes, but the onlything i changed is my bios version, i think
> it
> was from v 1.30. So with my oem key is "alredy in use" : / what am i
> soppuse
> to do?
>
> Daniel
>
> system: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4600+ / MSI K9N Neo / nvidia 8800

"Daniel" <> wrote in message
news:82F4EE99-A7BC-43D0-B596-...
> Hello, i just bought a new pc with an oem vista key, everything workt fine
> until yesturday when i updated my BIOS (with msi live updater) to v 1.60.
> Now vista says i need to register my vista key, mentioning something about
> hardware changes, but the onlything i changed is my bios version, i think
> it
> was from v 1.30. So with my oem key is "alredy in use" : / what am i
> soppuse
> to do?
>
> Daniel
>
> system: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4600+ / MSI K9N Neo / nvidia 8800


Activate by phone.

--
Jim

Daniel wrote:
> Hello, i just bought a new pc with an oem vista key, everything workt fine
> until yesturday when i updated my BIOS (with msi live updater) to v 1.60.
> Now vista says i need to register my vista key, mentioning something about
> hardware changes, but the onlything i changed is my bios version, i think it
> was from v 1.30. So with my oem key is "alredy in use" : / what am i soppuse
> to do?
>
> Daniel
>
> system: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4600+ / MSI K9N Neo / nvidia 8800

Well, isn't that *special*. Nothing like having to call India when
you're trying to configure your BIOS to make your day, eh what?

WPA/WGA/ISS/WGA-N do NOTHING to stop piracy and ONLY inconvenience
paying customers.

Alias

Richard Urban wrote:
> Activate Vista by phone. When you flashed the bios you essentially
> installed a new M/B, as far as the bios signature goes. Vista will pick
> up on this. It has no way of knowing that you "didn't" install Vista on
> a second computer.
>

Translation: the WPA program is flawed; doesn't catch one single pirate
and only inconveniences paying customers. Then MVPs wonder why everyone
is checking out Linux.

Alias

Richard Urban wrote:
> Activate Vista by phone. When you flashed the bios you essentially
> installed a new M/B, as far as the bios signature goes. Vista will
> pick up on this. It has no way of knowing that you "didn't" install
> Vista on a second computer.

Yeah this is reeeealy what progress is about... makign the most basic
things a royal PITA... in XP you could make changes like this without
this "re-register" bull crap.

I mean I can't possibly think they've gone a bit too far with the
activation crapitry???



> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
> news:82F4EE99-A7BC-43D0-B596-...
>> Hello, i just bought a new pc with an oem vista key, everything
>> workt fine until yesturday when i updated my BIOS (with msi live
>> updater) to v 1.60. Now vista says i need to register my vista key,
>> mentioning something about hardware changes, but the onlything i
>> changed is my bios version, i think it
>> was from v 1.30. So with my oem key is "alredy in use" : / what am i
>> soppuse
>> to do?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> system: AMD Athlon 64 x2 2600+ / MSI K9N Neo / nvidia 8800

Daniel wrote:
> Hello, i just bought a new pc with an oem vista key, everything workt
> fine until yesturday when i updated my BIOS (with msi live updater)
> to v 1.60. Now vista says i need to register my vista key, mentioning
> something about hardware changes, but the onlything i changed is my
> bios version, i think it was from v 1.30. So with my oem key is
> "alredy in use" : / what am i soppuse to do?

Damn, it feels good to be treated like a criminal doesn't it...

Saran wrote:
> Richard Urban wrote:
>> Activate Vista by phone. When you flashed the bios you essentially
>> installed a new M/B, as far as the bios signature goes. Vista will
>> pick up on this. It has no way of knowing that you "didn't" install
>> Vista on a second computer.
>
> Yeah this is reeeealy what progress is about... makign the most basic
> things a royal PITA... in XP you could make changes like this without
> this "re-register" bull crap.
>
> I mean I can't possibly think they've gone a bit too far with the
> activation crapitry???

Unfortunately for MS customers, they are only getting started. Now, with
XP, if you want IE7, Defenseless or WMP11, you gotta download and run
the "new and improved" WGA/N program. How special.

If you're really fed up, check out Ubuntu at www.ubuntu.com and order
the free CD that they even pay the postage for it to get to you.

Alias
>
>
>
>> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
>> news:82F4EE99-A7BC-43D0-B596-...
>>> Hello, i just bought a new pc with an oem vista key, everything
>>> workt fine until yesturday when i updated my BIOS (with msi live
>>> updater) to v 1.60. Now vista says i need to register my vista key,
>>> mentioning something about hardware changes, but the onlything i
>>> changed is my bios version, i think it
>>> was from v 1.30. So with my oem key is "alredy in use" : / what am i
>>> soppuse
>>> to do?
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> system: AMD Athlon 64 x2 2600+ / MSI K9N Neo / nvidia 8800
>
>

Flashing a computers bios is anything but basic.

I would bet that less than 1/10th of 1 percent of computers users have ever
done this.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Saran" <none@nospam> wrote in message
news:...
> Richard Urban wrote:
>> Activate Vista by phone. When you flashed the bios you essentially
>> installed a new M/B, as far as the bios signature goes. Vista will
>> pick up on this. It has no way of knowing that you "didn't" install
>> Vista on a second computer.
>
> Yeah this is reeeealy what progress is about... makign the most basic
> things a royal PITA... in XP you could make changes like this without this
> "re-register" bull crap.
>
> I mean I can't possibly think they've gone a bit too far with the
> activation crapitry???
>
>
>
>> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
>> news:82F4EE99-A7BC-43D0-B596-...
>>> Hello, i just bought a new pc with an oem vista key, everything
>>> workt fine until yesturday when i updated my BIOS (with msi live
>>> updater) to v 1.60. Now vista says i need to register my vista key,
>>> mentioning something about hardware changes, but the onlything i
>>> changed is my bios version, i think it
>>> was from v 1.30. So with my oem key is "alredy in use" : / what am i
>>> soppuse
>>> to do?
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> system: AMD Athlon 64 x2 2600+ / MSI K9N Neo / nvidia 8800
>
>