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Windows Meets New Motherboard - Scott Adams' Experience

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday December 21 2014, @05:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the genuine-advantage dept.

Nuke writes:

In his blog, Scott Adams describes his exasperating experience following a change of motherboards. Central to the story is the fact that he has two phone numbers for Windows re-activation, both of which claim they are an official Microsoft call center and that the other is a scam. Neither are any help anyway. Seems to be a topical issue right now.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 21 2014, @06:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 21 2014, @06:08PM (#128062)

    What if he bought a new motherboard because the old one failed, and didn't have an OEM key to patch into the bios nor tools to do this since the internet is down becuase the old pc is teh b0rken and required replacing the motherboard?

    it used to be that my pc would say invalid system disk, and then I would insert one that worked and life would go on.

    but yeah fuuuu.... about the drm and the cloud that rained on our convenience parades. I am sure a pirated copy eliminates these issues. Nice guys finish last and all of that (or greatly inconvenienced only to discover it would be easier and faster to cheat. There are few who maintain their last vestiges of honor and dignity via OS installs.

    Who knew OEM installs would become philosophical?