[KappaWing]

I have a retailers copy of windows XP home edition from Gateway, and it worked just fine on my old gateway computer. Recently I upgraded my system and am now using a Athlon X2 Dual Core processor (with a dual-BIOS). However, when i go to register windows after installing it, it says its already registered. Then when I reboot I get prompted again and go through the same process of it saying its already registered. This happened until I had 0 days left to register and it wouldent let me log in. I ended up having to reinstall windows. Now I am in the same situation and have 28 days left... I dont know if this problem is because I have a Gateway modified version of Windows XP Home Edition or because of my Dual Core processor... Please Help! 

[aldo_14]

It should give you a phone number to call in the login/registry call.  Phone it and, er, explain the whole situation.

[SadisticSid]

Considering Microsoft's stance on transferring versions of Windows between computers - particularly OEM copies as this is bound to be - if phoning them doesn't help, I'd just get one of those activation workarounds.

[Colonol Dekker]

Gateway + Time + Tiny = big no-no!!

[Prophet]

That registration crap is just so bull****. There are better ways to combat piratism. I recently formatted an older computer. It's more than adequate for a secondary rig, but had about 5 years old 95 install sitting on it and tons of programs installed. It was because of a ignorant user that the poor thing finally failed to funtion. Anyway, I installed XP Home on it, but forgot about the u-know-what (I have never registered windows ). The computer has no online connection, so I was thinking something like: **** it. Well windows 95 would be more than enought for it, but woe! 95 install doesn't know how to boot directly from CD. At that point I was in dire need of something to destroy and left it at that. It's good for one month. Perhaps the user finds a spare cable to put the computer online.
But then I started thinking... If the primary rig has the XP installed, any attempt to register the XP on the secondary would go fubar. Am I right or wrong?

I'm beginning to think I should break in to the house and secretly install cracked Windows on the computer. Everyone would be happier. Exept Mitrosoft, but who cares about them.

[Colonol Dekker]

The way i see it if Gates didnt want to be ripped off, he shouldnt have been so successful at monopolising (flooding  )  the market at the start.
FOR legal reasons my views dont reflect HLP's views, but CRACK WINDOWS ALL THE TIME PEOPLE

[AlphaOne]

well i dont care about microsoft it gave me  one hell of a head hurt when i tried to install a trial version so as to register it at a later date.

[Ferret]

Heh I had a real XP Pro at one point but lost it, so now I use my custom "XP Lite". I have a genuine Win 95 somewhere...

[Fury]

Any Windows XP that comes bundled with OEM computer such as Gateway, Dell, HP, etc is most likely a OEM Windows. In most cases you cannot install Windows XP on a system that does not have OEM identification in its BIOS, if you move hard drive to another system, you cannot activate. This means that you must order your new motherboard through your OEM manufacturer if you want to get a new motherboard, they rarely give you such possibility though and instead want you to buy a new computer from them.

In other words, as long as you use the original motherboard that came with the OEM computer you bought, you will be fine. But if you buy a new motherboard, you have to buy a new Windows as well since OEM identification is in motherboard BIOS.

[Colonol Dekker]

If i didnt have a fear of apples or penguins................

[Annorax]

I have a retailers copy of windows XP home edition from Gateway, and it worked just fine on my old gateway computer. Recently I upgraded my system and am now using a Athlon X2 Dual Core processor (with a dual-BIOS). However, when i go to register windows after installing it, it says its already registered. Then when I reboot I get prompted again and go through the same process of it saying its already registered. This happened until I had 0 days left to register and it wouldent let me log in. I ended up having to reinstall windows. Now I am in the same situation and have 28 days left... I dont know if this problem is because I have a Gateway modified version of Windows XP Home Edition or because of my Dual Core processor... Please Help! 

Your OEM copy of WinXP was probably licensed for only one core. You may have to buy a retail XP Pro with a dual-core license.

[Kosh]

You may have to buy a retail XP Pro with a dual-core license.

Who said anything about buying it?


And I really didn't know that OEM's had product activation, I thought they only had a CD key.

Either way, you are better off just DL'ing the "fix" for the activation issue.

[Fury]

Your OEM copy of WinXP was probably licensed for only one core. You may have to buy a retail XP Pro with a dual-core license.

Eh? There's no such licenses. Windows XP Home Edition supports one PHYSICAL processor, the one physical processor can still have many cores. Windows XP Professional supports two physical processors.

[KappaWing]

"D/L ing the fix" ???

Plz reply or email me at KappaWing[at]gmail[dot][com] if thats not allowd on the forums. I did buy this legitimatley, FYI, but that was a long time ago. 

[Kosh]

I just tried sending it to you, but it didn't go through.

[ZmaN]

I just tried sending it to you, but it didn't go through.

SEND IT TO ME TOO!!!!!!

[email protected]

[KappaWing]

I just tried sending it to you, but it didn't go through.

Hmm I did get a message in spam that had no subject and no author but I just deleted it cuz I thought it was viral.

[Kosh]

I don't think this was that. I got a "delivery failed" email from the hotmail postmaster.

[jr2]

...Can anyone else besides me hear Bill Gates laughing his head off as your e-mails get blocked?    Careful with those cracks.  of them contain viruses or spyware etc.  Just 'slong as you know what you're doing you'll be alright.

Me personally, I bought XP Pro Full and paid a pretty penny for it.  I had a GA-6BXD dual slot 1 board, that had 2 PIII-500s running in it, and a 16M Voodoo3 AGP card.  Which was fine.  But when I tried to upgrade my processors... for some stupid reason, XP kept trying to reactivate.  It didn't matter that it successfully reactivated w/the new processors, it just kept reactivating every time you booted the dumb thing up... I would've gone mad except for the Hibernate function.  Anyways, needless to say, I now have XP Corporate w/ SP2 slipstreamed into it, no activation required, from a friend of mine who shall remain nameless.

[Descenterace]

Any Windows XP that comes bundled with OEM computer such as Gateway, Dell, HP, etc is most likely a OEM Windows. In most cases you cannot install Windows XP on a system that does not have OEM identification in its BIOS,

Say what? OEMs like Dell, etc do not put ID info in the BIOS (unless you mean the boot logo, which I'm damn sure Windows does not key to). OEM Windows is the same as any other Windows, except it comes with less paper junk, more licence overhead, and a different type of CD key. I should know; when I build computers for people I buy OEM copies of Windows from EBuyer.

Eh? There's no such licenses. Windows XP Home Edition supports one PHYSICAL processor, the one physical processor can still have many cores. Windows XP Professional supports two physical processors.

Physical processor == CPU core. A dual-core CPU is two pysical processors and would need an XP Pro licence. A non-physical processor (a 'logical processor') is what you get in Hyperthreaded processors like the P4, which is why the P4 counts as one physical processor and thus works with XP Home.