zamaliphe

Jan 5 2008, 08:00 PM

QUOTE(Tramposch @ Jan 5 2008, 06:38 PM)

Well i purchased a computer, Dell Inspiron 530s (desktop)
cost I am upgrading heavily, im upgrading my motherboard now..

I chattted to dell support.. I hear that the operating system is not married to the motherboard... heres what she said.
(sorry if its hard.. to read lol)

What do you guys think about my situation?

the only selution for this situation is that you change the motherboard

and i think that cold be hard and moor costing than

just sell your old pc and bought new one

in my opinian you chose you pc pice with pice that you can know what exactly the cost

and what you can do with your pc

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Saint_Michael

Jan 6 2008, 01:24 AM

When you call Windows phone activation your provide them the key that gets display like so in the image below, and then they will provide you with a new activation number that you would type in and then press ok and you should be set.

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truefusion

Jan 6 2008, 06:18 AM

QUOTE(Tramposch @ Jan 5 2008, 08:54 PM)

Thanks, so this def work? thanks

You don't have to activate it through the phone. They give you a couple of options for activating it: phone or by internet. It should work either way. Doing it by the internet is better than by phone, because you don't have to speak out that huge installation ID, and then there's the huge ID they give you back, which you have to type out in the 4th step. And that's assuming that both of you can understand what each other are saying over the phone.

I remember once trying to activate the very same thing on my friend's laptop. I activated it through the internet, but after restarting the laptop, it told me to reactivate the thing again, and then the internet wouldn't work. I'm not sure if this will happen to you or not, though. But good luck.

 

 

 

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