My Vista is no longer valid after repairing my computer?

My new PC running Vista Premium just crashed on the weekend and I needed to
replace my Mother Board. I replaced my board with a better one, and had to
reformat my drive.

When I realoaded Vista I am now being told I have an invalid COA. It shows
alreay registered on another computer. Who can I contact to get this fixed?
--
T Szilagyi

Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft.
There are "legal" ways to put off activiation for a year and both legal and
illegal ways to generate a valid license key.
If you upgrade a video card you are told your license is invalid, let alone
a motherboard. Vista did that to me, but I don't give a rat's behind because
I only have Vista on a dual boot system as it is totally unusable.
Alas you must call the Microsoft center in India, Microsoft being dedicated
to keeping jobs in America their largest market-not, and waste ten minutes
getting a new set of numbers read to you, after swearing on all that is holy
or unholy to you that you are not trying to cheat Microsoft out of foisting
off another copy of Vista.
When all is said and done, however, you will still be running Vista and no
motherboard replacement can change that, activated or not.
Sorry for the bad news.

T Szilagyi wrote:
> My new PC running Vista Premium just crashed on the weekend and I needed to
> replace my Mother Board. I replaced my board with a better one, and had to
> reformat my drive.
>
> When I realoaded Vista I am now being told I have an invalid COA. It shows
> alreay registered on another computer. Who can I contact to get this fixed?

You need to use phone activation and hope they believe you.

Tired of this crap? Check out Ubuntu at www.ubuntu.com It's free, has no
activation or becoming "genuine" and comes with access to over 23,000
free programs.

Alias

You can select "Activate by Phone", and give Microsoft a call using the
number it gives you. You can talk to a rep there and they will have you back
up and running in about 5 minutes. The reason it says it is registered on
another computer is because you already activated it and it sees that as the
previous install.

--
Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com | Vista Resource & Information Page


"T Szilagyi" <TSzilagyi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My new PC running Vista Premium just crashed on the weekend and I needed
> to
> replace my Mother Board. I replaced my board with a better one, and had to
> reformat my drive.
>
> When I realoaded Vista I am now being told I have an invalid COA. It shows
> alreay registered on another computer. Who can I contact to get this
> fixed?
> --
> T Szilagyi

"Alias" <iamalias@removethisgmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23jUn6qcYIHA.3556@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> You need to use phone activation and hope they believe you.

They will believe him, don't bring out the nonsense.

> Tired of this crap? Check out Ubuntu at www.ubuntu.com It's free, has no
> activation or becoming "genuine" and comes with access to over 23,000 free
> programs.

I'm still trying to work out why Ubuntu won't automatically connect to my
wired network, or why I can't run it at the native resolution of my monitor,
or why my sound card doesn't work.

Any advice?

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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"Alias" <iamalias@removethisgmail.com> wrote in message
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>T Szilagyi wrote:
>> My new PC running Vista Premium just crashed on the weekend and I needed
>> to replace my Mother Board. I replaced my board with a better one, and
>> had to reformat my drive.
>>
>> When I realoaded Vista I am now being told I have an invalid COA. It
>> shows alreay registered on another computer. Who can I contact to get
>> this fixed?
>
> You need to use phone activation and hope they believe you.
>
> Tired of this crap? Check out Ubuntu at www.ubuntu.com It's free, has no
> activation or becoming "genuine" and comes with access to over 23,000 free
> programs.
>
> Alias

How much does Ubuntu pay you to sit here and push there product in this NG?

Alias wrote:

> T Szilagyi wrote:
>
>> My new PC running Vista Premium just crashed on the weekend and I
>> needed to replace my Mother Board. I replaced my board with a better
>> one, and had to reformat my drive.
>>
>> When I realoaded Vista I am now being told I have an invalid COA. It
>> shows alreay registered on another computer. Who can I contact to get
>> this fixed?
>
>
> You need to use phone activation and hope they believe you.
>
> Tired of this crap? Check out Ubuntu at www.ubuntu.com It's free, has no
> activation or becoming "genuine" and comes with access to over 23,000
> free programs.
>
> Alias

STFU you fukkin lying linux troll.
You are just GD troll!
Get lost as*hole.
POS loser.
Frank

flambe wrote:

> Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft.
> There are "legal" ways to put off activiation for a year and both legal and
> illegal ways to generate a valid license key.
> If you upgrade a video card you are told your license is invalid, let alone
> a motherboard. Vista did that to me, but I don't give a rat's behind because
> I only have Vista on a dual boot system as it is totally unusable.
> Alas you must call the Microsoft center in India, Microsoft being dedicated
> to keeping jobs in America their largest market-not, and waste ten minutes
> getting a new set of numbers read to you, after swearing on all that is holy
> or unholy to you that you are not trying to cheat Microsoft out of foisting
> off another copy of Vista.
> When all is said and done, however, you will still be running Vista and no
> motherboard replacement can change that, activated or not.
> Sorry for the bad news.
>
>
You moron...all he has to do is phone activation.
That's all you had to post.
Stupid POS loser!
Frank

CAN ANYONE HELP ME REPAIRING MY COMPUTER. IT USED TO RUN FAST NOW IT RUNS
SLOW. MY SISTER HAVE NO PROBLEM. SHE SAID TO DO CLEAN INSTALL. WHERE DO I
FIND CLEAN INSTALL. THANKYOIU FOR YOU HELP.

Frank wrote:

> flambe wrote:
>
>> Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft.
>> There are "legal" ways to put off activiation for a year and both legal
>> and illegal ways to generate a valid license key.
>> If you upgrade a video card you are told your license is invalid, let
>> alone a motherboard. Vista did that to me, but I don't give a rat's
>> behind because I only have Vista on a dual boot system as it is totally
>> unusable. Alas you must call the Microsoft center in India, Microsoft
>> being dedicated to keeping jobs in America their largest market-not, and
>> waste ten minutes getting a new set of numbers read to you, after
>> swearing on all that is holy or unholy to you that you are not trying to
>> cheat Microsoft out of foisting off another copy of Vista.
>> When all is said and done, however, you will still be running Vista and
>> no motherboard replacement can change that, activated or not.
>> Sorry for the bad news.
>>
>>
> You moron...all he has to do is phone activation.
> That's all you had to post.
> Stupid POS loser!
> Frank

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WHY U NOT HELP ME??????????? I NEED HELP HERE. HOW DO I REPAIR MY
COMPUTR????????? IT IS RUNNING SLOW NOW. USED TO RUN PRETTY FAST. WHERE DO
I GET CLEAN INSTALL????????

Frank wrote:

> flambe wrote:
>
>> Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft.
>> There are "legal" ways to put off activiation for a year and both legal
>> and illegal ways to generate a valid license key.
>> If you upgrade a video card you are told your license is invalid, let
>> alone a motherboard. Vista did that to me, but I don't give a rat's
>> behind because I only have Vista on a dual boot system as it is totally
>> unusable. Alas you must call the Microsoft center in India, Microsoft
>> being dedicated to keeping jobs in America their largest market-not, and
>> waste ten minutes getting a new set of numbers read to you, after
>> swearing on all that is holy or unholy to you that you are not trying to
>> cheat Microsoft out of foisting off another copy of Vista.
>> When all is said and done, however, you will still be running Vista and
>> no motherboard replacement can change that, activated or not.
>> Sorry for the bad news.
>>
>>
> You moron...all he has to do is phone activation.
> That's all you had to post.
> Stupid POS loser!
> Frank

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