Recent content by bbear1

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    Reliability of portable Flash Drives?

    I find flash drives to be less reliable than a modern hard drive. This has been my personal experience. I find the brand of drive you buy can affect it's reliability. I've never seen a Best Buy brand flash drive last past 6 months and I've seen them fail in less than a month. On the other hand...
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    Question for those who had to call Microsoft to reactivate Vista

    Questions they asked me: 1. How many PCs is Vista installed on? Thats it.
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    Vista - Power Options > Monitor WONT turn off?!?

    I also have the same issue or a similar issue with my logitech MX1000. Screensaver doesn't come on. Monitor won't turn off. Computer refuses to go into sleep mode. More info posted here: http://blogs.sqlxml.org/bryantlikes/arc...r-doesn-t-activate-in-vista.aspx#18395 Someone also...
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    What is the default resolution of Vista?

    Yup, defaulted to 1600 x 1200 for me.
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    Vista forcing me to reactivate after 1 memory upgrade

    After activating on release day I: (1) updated my VIA RAID drivers and (2) updated my Nvidia drivers to the beta release It still seems weird to me that this would influence vista to deactivate itself because Vista was able to see my RAID before using the old XP drivers I loaded at...
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    Vista forcing me to reactivate after 1 memory upgrade

    It's around 2PM in the afternoon in Mumbia India at the time I was calling. The difference between Eastern Time and Mumbai is 11.5 hours.
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    Vista forcing me to reactivate after 1 memory upgrade

    Maybe it's a bug and I just got lucky? Or maybe Home Premium is more picky about hardware changes than Vista Ultimate.
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    Vista forcing me to reactivate after 1 memory upgrade

    Automated Phone activation lets you activate your Vista over the phone e.g. if you don't have an internet connection. It also takes you to the activation hotline where you can speak to a human. I wish it said that somewhere. I wasted time searching Microsoft.com for that number when all I...
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    Vista forcing me to reactivate after 1 memory upgrade

    Yeah what I actually did to cause this was 1. I activated Vista with 1GB of ram on release day. 2. Tonight I installed 2 x 512MB DIMMs but 1 was not seated correctly. BIOS did not boot. 3. I removed 1 DIMM. Vista booted and saw 1.5GB of ram 4. I reinstalled the DIMM properly this time...
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    Vista forcing me to reactivate after 1 memory upgrade

    UPDATE: Well here is what happened. I called the Microsoft activation hotline and spoke to a computer answer system. After reading out a long identification number provided by the Vista activation tool the system told me I needed to speak to a human to resolve this. I was put on hold for...
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    Vista forcing me to reactivate after 1 memory upgrade

    I'm using the retail version of Home Premium. I can't call them now because their phone support is closed. I have to wait until 6AM PST. Vista saw my memory troubleshooting as an "excessive" hardware change. That sucks. EDIT: I dug up their activation hotline number which seems to be...
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    Vista forcing me to reactivate after 1 memory upgrade

    Today I upgraded my ram from 1GB to 2GB. I had an issue with one of the DIMMs so I had to reboot a few times to troubleshoot (one of the DIMMs was not completely seated). When I got everything working and booted into Vista I was greeted with the following message: "Windows has been...