Ok I had a problem with my sound card yesterday so i downloaded the drivers for it again and it didnt fix it so i decided to do a virus scan. The scan showed some infected files so i decided to try and clean em. When I restarted my computer the screen was blue i couls see the mouse cursosr moving but that was it. I put my xp cd in and booted from cd-rom I went through instalation which gave me an option to do system recover but it gave me an error. I tried the option which let me repair my install same problem as in the beginning. So i took my old partition out and created a new one and installed windows on it. everything worked fine then it told me to activate windows. i put the product key in and then i was propmted to put a new one in because it said that the key i was enetering had already used up its allowed installs. Microsoft wont help becaus it is an OEM product what can I do?
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Activating windows
- Thread starter xomp3772
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There is no limit, althought if your doing many in a short time you may need to actually speak to someone. Typically the activation info times out after a few months. The purpose is to prevent the key from being widely shared, not to keep you from reinstalling when you need to.
Bill