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re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 7:17 am
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Posted by Gerson (2 messages posted)


My XP installation hung during bootup...until I removed the ancient S3 video card which I'd been keeping in the machine in case I ever got a second monitor ... then had forgotten about... as derek says, almost certain to be a hardware or driver issue. try removing cards one by one from the PC.


On Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 10:26 pm, Derek wrote:
>Well, even though there will be service packs (it's Microsoft...service packs are 
>a given) along the way, I don't think they'll really fix your problem.  When your 
>computer just up and reboots, do you get a blue screen really quick that displays 
>an error?  99.9% of the errors I have in XP are because of really poorly coded drivers 
>from the manufacturer, not Microsoft.  
>
>Most of the errors I receive are from my Video card (nVidia GF3) and my Sound Card 
>(SBLIVE).  I updated the drivers, and *voila* my problems disappeared.  So, if I 
>were you, I would get all the drivers for your video card, sound card, motherboard, 
>modem, etc...ESPECIALLY if you upgraded from, say, 9x/Me.  
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>


>On Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 6:23 pm, R Montalbon wrote: >I have a question about How >do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?:

> >I have been running XP pro for a couple weeks now and have had more crashes (er, >rather XP initiated "restarts") and hang ups than i ever had in win2000. Im sure >there must be service packs on the way (hopefully), BUT i have opted to keep this >machine off the net (modems are painfully slow). I have tried to use windowsupdates.com >to "lookfor" packs, but this damn thing is "automatic" (according to MS, windows >users are not only thieves, but they are also total idiots). Is there any where >i can find or get packs for an XP machine that is not on the net? > > >BTW, I emailed MS with the same query a week ago and have heard NOTHING from them--add >worthless to the list of idiots and thieves.




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re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Derek: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 at 10:26 pm)

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-Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Tony: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 6:23 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Derek: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 10:26 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Gerson: Wed, Nov 21, 2001, 7:17 am)
-re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Andrew: Sat, Feb 22, 2003, 12:05 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Charlie: Fri, Aug 29, 2003, 7:25 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (dereck: Sat, May 26, 2007, 11:42 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Tim: Fri, Nov 23, 2001, 2:10 pm)
-re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (allen: Fri, Nov 23, 2001, 10:15 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Chris: Sun, Dec 2, 2001, 5:09 pm)
*re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Beecher Wood: Mon, Jan 14, 2002, 6:58 pm)
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