I do not understand the problem, or how it could possibly have gone wrong, but here goes:
I installed my copy of vista business onto my pc, then later changed the motherboard, and had to reinstall.
Obviously as there was a significant hardware change, when trying to activate vista for the 2nd time, it said my key is in use.
I suppose that is technically true but I've had the same problem with windows xp but did the phone activation and it was fine.
I followed the automated phone activation stuff, answered all the right questions about whether this is my only pc (YES), have i changed significant amounts of hardware (YES), etc, and successfully activated vista, yet it is telling me that I still have to activate it?
Why?!? Is it retarded? It told me a few days beforehand it was successfully activated, and now its threatening to stop windows working fine even though I have done nothing wrong. What gives???
The same kind of thing happened with windows XP ages ago and I had to do a phone activation about 5-6 times then windows finally took the hint. Do I have to do this same *** again and again for vista too?
Here is a paste of MGA Diag tool:
Diagnostic Report (1.7.0012.0):
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WGA Data-->
Validation Status: Genuine
Detailed Status: 0x1
Windows Product Key: *****-*****-W83C9-PXDG3-MJR6R
Windows Product Key Hash: a+5lSnZsb8Np7Py93eK/dRXCMvU=
Windows Product ID: 89576-009-8420142-71807
Windows Product ID Type: 5
Windows License Type: Retail
Windows OS version: 6.0.6000.2.00010100.0.0.006
ID: 2b5cae2e-3d79-4284-ac85-14925e6aa874
Is Admin: Yes
AutoDial: No
Registry: 0x0
WGA Version: Registered, 1.5.723.1
Signed By: Microsoft
Product Name: Windows Vista (TM) Business
Architecture: 0x00000000
Build lab: 6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205
TTS Error:
Validation Diagnostic:
Resolution Status: N/A
Notifications Data-->
Cached Result: N/A
File Exists: No
Version: N/A
WgaTray.exe Signed By: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
WgaLogon.dll Signed By: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
OGA Data-->
Office Status: 114 Blocked VLK 2
OGA Version: Failed to retrieve file version. - 0x80070002
Signed By: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
Office Diagnostics: FCEE394C-3178-80070002_025D1FF3-138-80041010_025D1FF3-324-80040154_025D1FF3-269-80040154_025D1FF3-273-80070002
Browser Data-->
Proxy settings: N/A
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Win32)
Default Browser: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
Download signed ActiveX controls: Prompt
Download unsigned ActiveX controls: Disabled
Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins: Allowed
Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe: Disabled
Allow scripting of Internet Explorer Webbrowser control: Disabled
Active scripting: Allowed
Script ActiveX controls marked as safe for scripting: Allowed
File Scan Data-->
