Vista & Overclocking

[Dostoyevsky77]

Last night, I was playing around with my processor overclock & ran into something I've never had a problem with before: if I increase my OC from 3.46, Vista asks me to re-register when it's starting-up. I click on "register over the internet" & it says "successful," but then in the lower-right corner of the desktop, it says "unlicensed copy". When I return to my original OC (3.46) or anything below that, everything's fine. Even the slightest bump over, though, and "unlicensed copy".

I'm running OEM Ultimate, but WTH? I though OEM was bound to the mobo, not the CPU speed! I've never had this problem before, so why is this happening now?

Anyone run into this before or have any ideas?

Cheers,

d

 

[Rebel44]

Its likely incorrectly detecting your HW. Your licence is only tied to MoBo so I recomend you to call MS - they may have some solution.

 

[Dostoyevsky77]

It costs $59, so I'm trying not to have to go down that road.

 

[spyordie007]

Interesting, this is the first time I've heard about this happening.

I would bump it up and than call MSFT, if you're clear in that this is an issue with the product they should waive the charge.

 

[nerp]

Interesting. Does the overclock cause the BIOS to report a different processor? Back in the day, I had a Barton 2500+ that would report as a 3000+ when I OC'd it a bit. Perhaps this triggered the re-activation process. But why that warning would appear after "activation successful" is beyond me. Maybe it will just nicely go away on its own?

 

[Dostoyevsky77]

It must be something like that... it must be recognizing a different hardware. Maybe the OC is making Vista think it's a different mobo somehow. I will try again tonight & check out what CPU-Z says; I didn't think of that last night because I was scared that running in "unlicensed mode" meant that lawyers were being dispatched to my house in ominous-looking Suburbans...