On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 06:40:19 +0100, Graham P Davis
wrote:
If you're replacing that much, won't MS not recognise your machine and
insist you buy a new product? ;-)
I've installed this OEM disc of Windows 7 Home Premium on two laptops
and two incarnations of this PC. Each time, the on-line registration has
worked with no difficulties. However, this time the on-line registration
was rejected, as you suggested it might, and I tried the telephone
option. This was quite fraught. The 'voice' at the other end required me
type in a fifty-four digit number in nine blocks of six using the
telephone keypad. This number was generated by my PC. It then fed me
another fifty-four digit number, again in nine blocks of six, which I
typed in to the PC using the keyboard. It worked but only after some
false alarms caused by either my mis-typing or not understanding the
'voice'.
The reason for the rebuild was that two of the SATA ports on the
motherboard failed and in so doing corrupted Agent. As I run Agent from
DropBox this meant that the cloud version was also corrupted.
Fortunately, DropBox has excellent backup facilities and I was able to
download an earlier, uncorrupted version of Agent once I'd sorted out a
another SATA port which was working. With a suspect, six year old
motherboard with two non-working ports, it had to go but a new
motherboard wouldn't accept the old CPU and memory so they had to be
replaced as well. The new graphics card is shorter than the old one
which makes life easier when poking about inside the case. I also
installed a new SSD drive which I cloned from the old SSD drive using
Acronis True Image. I clone to the old drive once a week so that I'm
never more than a week old if something goes wrong. A daily application
of Advanced System Care and SpyHunter seems to clean up the system very
nicely and it runs like a dream.
Sorry about the length of this post but I thought it might be useful to
others.
--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
By Loch Long, twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:-
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