The Vista Dilemma - I am stuck in a loop.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:41 am

During my initial install I managed to get Vista to decide my copy is not authorized and I must register immediately. Well I can't register because I haven't installed any drivers yet and I can't install any drivers now because I haven't registered yet.

Now what?

Ducky · Post by **Ducky** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:38 am

Try "upgrading" the unauthorized copy -- that should get you in for a short while, I think.

DaveLessnau · Post by **DaveLessnau** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:10 am

You should be able to call them up and register via the phone.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:13 am

DaveLessnau wrote:You should be able to call them up and register via the phone.

That's what I will try when I get home, but how will Vista on my PC know? It can't connect to anything.

I posted this over in MS's help forums. 4 hours later still no response.

One guy has a screen that says he has drivers missing, but Vista doesn't say which drivers, and "Next" is greyed out because he needs to update his drivers. Duh.

All hail open source

frostedflakes · Post by **frostedflakes** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:45 am

You don't need to be connected to the net to register via phone. Just call them up and read off some ridiculously long sequence of numbers and letters (IIRC it's like 40 or 50 characters long) on your screen to the tech. They will then read off another ridiculously long sequence of numbers and letters which you enter into the activation wizard on your computer. Then you're good to go.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:36 am

frostedflakes wrote:You don't need to be connected to the net to register via phone. Just call them up and read off some ridiculously long sequence of numbers and letters (IIRC it's like 40 or 50 characters long) on your screen to the tech. They will then read off another ridiculously long sequence of numbers and letters which you enter into the activation wizard on your computer. Then you're good to go.

That's not too good when Bs and Ds sound alike on the phone.

frostedflakes · Post by **frostedflakes** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:42 am

I've done the activation a few times and it went pretty smooth. The people I talked to had Indian accents, but all recited the activation code slowly and articulately, and in general were pretty friendly and helpful. Don't worry, it should be (relatively) painless.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:03 am

Don't worry, it should be (relatively) painless.

I'm sure that's what I will be told when I get a colonoscopy as well.

Athlon64 X2 3600+ "Brisbane"
Arctic Cooling Freezer64 Pro
ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA 6100-405
2x512MB Corsair VS DDR2-667

Are you planning to OC at all? You must have really low temps, no?

floffe · Post by **floffe** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:26 am

aristide1 wrote:That's not too good when Bs and Ds sound alike on the phone.

Bravo/Delta

frostedflakes · Post by **frostedflakes** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:44 am

aristide1 wrote:
Don't worry, it should be (relatively) painless.
I'm sure that's what I will be told when I get a colonoscopy as well.

Athlon64 X2 3600+ "Brisbane"
Arctic Cooling Freezer64 Pro
ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA 6100-405
2x512MB Corsair VS DDR2-667
Are you planning to OC at all? You must have really low temps, no?

Nah no plans to OC for now, the system is plenty fast for my needs.

Anyways, good luck w/activation, hopefully you won't have any problems.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:15 am

Activation went well. As I said in the "expert" Vista forums this manual Band-Aid addressed the incorrectly functioning technical issue. Think they got the hint?

I moved onto ATI driver issues.

peteamer · Post by **peteamer** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:53 am

aristide1 wrote:All hail open source

Then why not go that route

.....

I'm now on OpenSuSE...
Not too many problems...

All problems sorted by my friend Google.....

See 'The Light' man.....

Don't moan about something you had to pay for,...
Moan about something that's free.....