Killer Mobo

[DaveW]

I'm not touching that with a 60 foot pole. This is a bomb waiting to go off.

-Dave

[XcOM]

strangly you don't need to re-install or format, just start windows, you will get lag the first 3 or 4 times you boot, but this is becuase its installing drivers, and as for windows activiation it will just ask for re-activation, just call, you get 5 re-activations per code.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks you guys have been heaps of help.

[digital_exhaust]

One method I've have tried, successfully, is a small registry edit. I learned this through someone on another forum, so I will take no credit for this, I just hope it can help you.
If your uncomfortable working with your registry, this is probably not something you'll want to try, but it has worked for me several times.

Open regedit (start>run>type in REGEDIT and click ok), find HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG>SYSTEM>CURRENTCONTROLSET>ENUM
Delete the entire ENUM key, close regedit and shut down. Rebuild your system, boot normally and Windows will detect your new hardware and build profiles, and from there your good to go. It may take a couple re-starts for it to run smoothly.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Thanks man thats great help.

[therealjoe]

when you get a new motherboard it is considered as a new system which is annoying so evrytime you reinstall windows with the same motherboard you wont need to register on the phone but when you get a new motherboard windows thinks its a completly different computer

[mszo]

I got a pretty noob question...

if you dont use windows but have a lnux system instead, how do you run all the apps you have for windows. I mean...there isnt nearly as many things for linux as there is for windows


and yeah, that comment was definetly a-hole

[bartvandenberg]

am i the only person in the world that doesnt activate windows? who on earth wants to go trhough that crap everytime you reformate a hd. anyone here ever heard of wpakill.safe? kills that pesky windows product activation b.s. by only changing a couple registry settings. used it for years, never had any issues with my registry.

[therealjoe]

i wish i read that earlier i was on the phone for about an hour trying to activate windows last week lol