Vista Acivation Issues
Monday, March 17, 2008 at 11:21 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John B
(3 messages posted)
Okay, before I start I have to point out that my laptop was bought legitimatelly
and that the copy of Vista on it is genuine. I posted for help on a Widows forum
and got flamed because they claimed I got what I deserved for stealing Vista. /sigh
Okay, so I have owned my Acer Aspire 5050 laptop since November, all was well until
it took a fall a few weeks back and the hard drive took the brunt of it. New hard
drive needed, moved everything over and reinstalled vista. Everything worked perfectly,
until last night. I turned it on to be told my copy of Vista Premium was not genuine
and that I could run my laptop in reduced functionality mode, contact Microsoft or
try putting in the product key. Did the latter only to be told that the system liscencing
service said that the bios license was missing. Oh joy. I phoned up Microsoft and
after 45 minutes of giving them every detail imaginable they said "Contact Acer".
I phoned them who said either reinstall vista or buy a new copy (like that's happening)
I reinstalled Vista, and still they bug me about it not being genuine. So anyone
had this prob and can help? I thought perhaps if it's a bios issue then updating
it would help but the link to an updated bios for the vista model on the acer website
is a dead link so I'm at a loss. Can anyone help out?
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