I added A STICK OF RAM.
Just 1. Thats it. A single stick of ram.
I have to re-activate windows. No biggie right? Wrong. The activation servers are not responding.
Why would these morons make it so you can install the OS and go 60 days without re-activating, yet if you ADD AN EFFING STICK OF RAM (which btw, this is the first time I have ever had to re-activate due to a hardware change, and I have done some massive changes on other machines), you have to re-activate immediately, and you cant even log into windows to check to make sure your settings are correct. I am thinking my NIC is disabled in the control panel, and the wireless drivers maybe dont load until you are fully booted (actually I know they dont).
So I am screwed. Oh, why dont I call? My phone broke today, so I cant go get it fixed until tomorrow.
F it, I will just reinstall the machine. I will be back up and running with it in an hour, then I can wait 2 months if I feel like it instead of having to re-activate for adding 256megs of ram.
Obviously not this machine.
/rant
BTW I think the reason it did it is when I added that stick, it shifted the mem speed from 400 to 333, so it probably thinks its a different mobo/proc?
Just 1. Thats it. A single stick of ram.
I have to re-activate windows. No biggie right? Wrong. The activation servers are not responding.
Why would these morons make it so you can install the OS and go 60 days without re-activating, yet if you ADD AN EFFING STICK OF RAM (which btw, this is the first time I have ever had to re-activate due to a hardware change, and I have done some massive changes on other machines), you have to re-activate immediately, and you cant even log into windows to check to make sure your settings are correct. I am thinking my NIC is disabled in the control panel, and the wireless drivers maybe dont load until you are fully booted (actually I know they dont).
So I am screwed. Oh, why dont I call? My phone broke today, so I cant go get it fixed until tomorrow.
F it, I will just reinstall the machine. I will be back up and running with it in an hour, then I can wait 2 months if I feel like it instead of having to re-activate for adding 256megs of ram.
Obviously not this machine.
/rant
BTW I think the reason it did it is when I added that stick, it shifted the mem speed from 400 to 333, so it probably thinks its a different mobo/proc?