- Joined
- Feb 3, 2004
- Location
- SW MI
I bought a oem version XPpro sp1 a couple months back, installed it, and activated it and registered it. Today I swapped my IDE cables to round cables, and cleaned up my case and added an extra fan. I boot up, and windows pops up and says, due to hardware changes you must reactivate. I go to activate, and it says that this copy of windows has been activated previously, (no *****, by me) and I need to enter a new CD key. WHY? I add a case fan and change my ide cables, and now I have to buy a new O/S? I paid big $$$, for my budget anyway, for a friggen disposible O/S? Who Else in this wide world can get away with this kinda friggen garbage other then Bill friggen Gates? Has anyone else ever had this problem?