[robina80]

ages ago when i installed my new GFX card ive always had this problem once in a blue moon it says windows requires activation so i activate it and think nothing of it BUT recently it came up again and showing just the black screen in the backround and when i tried to activate it, it said this key invalid or something along the lines basically it doesnt let me activate it no more and then i couldnt go into windows so i had to reinstall windows and i thought as im doing it from fresh it will this time activate it and when i go into control panel system



and i think it has the same problem, it doesnt think my windows is genuine but it is i got it at a retailer

[robina80]

it has come to my attention that because i have a builders disk or OEM that everytime i make a hardware change i need to contact micro but if i get retail i wont have this problem just activate it once and that be that

[Bubba]

Actually if you re installVista from the retail you have to re activate it again through windows. At least I did.

[robina80]

when i reinstalled windows and activated it im pretty sure its still not activated when it darn well says "windows is activated" the reason why i think its not activated is because every time windows produces errors saying this host process has stopped working etc etc and the look of my home prem is not the same its gone back to the basic look

[robina80]

i called micro and i explained how i installed a new graphics card and he said you should only have to activate windows once after you installed the new gfx but i said once every 2 weeks or whatever it reappears and then we came to the conclusion its a hardware conflict, and i said since having windows vista ive always had this unknown device and i think its my sound card as its got a game pad connector on it and i said how vista doesnt support game pads no more and i said ive disabled the device but yet i still get asked to activate windows.

[pete21]

i no of spywear that pops a box up saying windows not registered?

[kel13]

just a few thoughts, 1. i don't know about vista but xp can only be activated twice every 120 days hence.{ perhaps} the invalid key thing.
2. perhaps you have a recuring hardware failure {fails when hot?}
3. try without graphics card
4. try dropping your computer from the top of a building {at least you get some satisfaction}
5. use suggestion # 4 as a last resort

[Hybr!d]

If some of your hardware is not installed properly then the PC will think something has changed each time the problem piece of hardware install/uninstalls itself.

So the key here is to make sure all your hardware is installed 100% properly, then reactivate, call Msoft to do so if necessary.