last time able to use serial for XP

[sup3rcarrx8]

Hi guys. I recently used the last time to use my serial key for XP and was wondering if i have to pay again for a new copy in order to get a new serial. Thanks.

 

[redduc900]

What do you mean you used your serial key for the last time?

 

[galador]

Are you talking about getting a new serial by phone or your origional serial #? I think your serial is good for 3 times then you just have to call MS ( toll free #) to reassign a new serial for free. They ask you if you are using this # for any other PC. You will also have to give them the old serial.

 

[sup3rcarrx8]

Are you talking about getting a new serial by phone or your origional serial #? I think your serial is good for 3 times then you just have to call MS ( toll free #) to reassign a new serial for free. They ask you if you are using this # for any other PC. You will also have to give them the old serial.

Yeah. I meant three times instead of five. So I should just call the Support line and ask them for another serial after giving them my old one right? Thanks.

 

[stan03]

if you reinstall you will come up with a screen giving you the option to activate over the phone. you read a bunch of digits over the phone and they read another set to you. thhen you are fine

sticky: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=298346

argh beaten by reduc

 

[samuraisam]

Yeah. I meant three times instead of five. So I should just call the Support line and ask them for another serial after giving them my old one right? Thanks.

Good luck getting to a damn human.

-Sam

 

[sup3rcarrx8]

Good luck getting to a damn human.

-Sam

Ha. That's kinda why i bought a speakerphone for my room. I love it.

 

[L337 M33P]

Are you talking about getting a new serial by phone or your origional serial #? I think your serial is good for 3 times then you just have to call MS ( toll free #) to reassign a new serial for free. They ask you if you are using this # for any other PC. You will also have to give them the old serial.

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I've used my original XP key 7 times so far on one PC with varying hardware - not a whisper out of MS

 

[dicecca112]

yeah its weird like that, sometimes its 3, 5, some people as high as 21.

 

[mysubaruimp]

Mine was 2.

It depends on hardware changes and a bunch of other junk. Just call em up and they can get you a new one for free. Just be prepared to wait. i think I played 2 rounds of CS while my phone was playing crappy music for me while I waited.

 

[ps2cho]

yea i got all that stuff when i switched CPU's because my "hardware" had changed too much. i just told the dude i had reinstalled windows 3 times after i had a hard drive problem...
just call em, they dont really care with there scrolling text they read off to you
"is this copy of windows installed on any other computer?"
"ok read off the code posted on your screen and read them off one by one in groups when i say go"
lol

 

[galador]

I guess I've been lucky, of the 4 times of reinstalling XP I have never had to wait on the phone more than 1 minute.

 

[Contra]

dude i have done the restore/reformat thing about 16 times with my XP

just tell then when thay ask you that you have a new hard drive or mobo or you were using a raid but it was unstable or something

they never have denied me a new key i only use it on my comp and no other computer

i know what rules they have but they are just as lazy as us
and dont want confrontation either