Too many problems

[Finplus]

I just recently had a new motherboard installed and since then strange things are happening.

First change that I noticed was that I was being warned that I was running non genuine Microsoft Office software and whilst I will attend to this, I haven't yet as it is just a warning.

However, two problems that I am having that are causing me a lot of problems are that I cannot access a particular website from this computer even though I can from a laptop and also that when I try to run a particular software program (not MS Office), it is coming up with a Run Time Error 429. The software supplier is saying that the problem is my computer.

Are these problem related to the Microsoft Office warning in any way or could it be a problem with the installation of the motherboard.

i know this is very vague but I don't know where to start!

[jaydeee]

new motherboard will really demand lots of updates.

windows drivers and reactivation of OS are common...

so if you can afford its better to reinstall everything.

[vantim]

Is the motherboard replacement Identical to the original?

If not... Did you reinstall Windows? or Did you just plug in the
old hard drive and go?

[lmnobs]

It would be nice to knpw what O/S and Browser you ar running . Most likely your Run Time Error 429 is Browser related and you need to clean your Cache /
Hii ! Vantim long ,long ,long Time .

[bigH2O]

This post is over a year old, but the problem stems from the Microsoft algorithms that they use to determine legitimacy of a license. If you change anything on a system, the checksum that they run on your system will change, and if it's dramatic enough, it will cause your licence to become inactive.

If you have a retail version, all you have to do is contact them and tell them you've transfered the license to another machine and it will be reactivated. If you have an OEM version, it's a little harder. Be prepared to tell them that you were the original manufacturer of the system and that the customer had a hardware failure that you had to replace. If you can convince them that you were the system builder, and you can if you actually were, you can convince them to reactivate the license.

It doesn't take anything more dramatic than adding a hard drive or changing an ethernet adapter or video card to cause the checksum to fail, rendering your Windows installation invalid. If they think it's a different computer based on the checksum of the hardware installed, you're screwed unless you can talk your way out of it.

[lmnobs]

This info would have been good a yar ago but it still depends on what OS they have . Win 95/08/SE/ME would not have those probs. I certainlly agree you ain't gonna get Micro Squash to work with out the Reg no on anything later unless you Hack kit /but nobody does thay kind of thing .

[bigH2O]

Well the earlier versions didn't have the authentication issues we have had since XP, so I was assuming XP.