There is a policy of no phones in the local school system
it was found that outsiders (boy/girl friends, fellow gang members, kin, the expelled and adults ) were getting called in for backup
when an argument between students happend. It has gotten so bad that the police have had to clear the the school of all
students and staff. The no phone policy is the least disruptive (of civil rights ) that the administration can come up with.
My trouble with WGA Last month (June '06), my computer died (fried caps on the motherboard) just after the 2nd Tuesday updates from MS. Ok lets get into my junk box and cobble something that will work (at least for now). Disassemble the box looking for other problems lets see... Memory 2 sticks DDR 333 512 Megs OK Motherboard K7S5A with athlon 1.1Meg Crispy caps splattered on board NG Video card NVIDIA 5600 Ultra OK Sound card Audigy 2 OK TV tuner card Win TV Go OK HD #1 120 GB OK
Partitioned as (1: ntfs XP home, 2: ntfs XP pro, 3: vfat32 win98SE) Box with PS it was a little warm in there with lots of power hungry parts... Replace with larger box Junk box parts: Motherboard K7S5A with Duron 1.2Meg not too bad one-step down on CPU
1 step up on speed Larger case with PS OK
Reassemble machine...
Power up... using the XP loader Partition one XP home (with Junes updates) complains that it's a pirate copy of windows and will not work after 3 days unless I buy a genuine copy of windows... Ok do windows activation wizard... attempt failed... attempt failed... attempt failed... Grrr!!
Power up... using the XP loader Partition two XP Pro (without Junes updates) complains that it needs to be activated or the computer will stop working in 30 days... Hmm!... Ok do windows activation wizard... thank you for activating windows.
Same hardware... almost the same updates (missing june) and very different responses from the OS... windows WGA program?
Call tech support... need name, address, credit card number?... I hang up!
Call the 800 number for activation,
Start loop
(answer the call automatically put me on hold drop call) Repeat intermittently for four hours!!!
answer the call put me on hold...start the activation dialog... read the string (in 5 letter bytes)... read the string (in 5 letter bytes) repeat as needed. Type the 25 digit number in re-confirm the number... press enter success !
Partition one now works normally (did not have to re-install programs) Partition two now works normally (did not have to re-install programs)
All is good with the world (did you know if I can find a newer motherboard [cheap!])
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There is a policy of no phones in the local school system it was found that outsiders (boy/girl friends, fellow gang members, kin, the expelled and adults ) were getting called in for backup when an argument between students happend. It has gotten so bad that the police have had to clear the the school of all students and staff. The no phone policy is the least disruptive (of civil rights ) that the administration can come up with.
My trouble with WGA
... using the XP loader ... attempt failed... attempt failed... attempt failed... Grrr!!
... Hmm! ... Ok do windows activation wizard ... thank you for activating windows.
... need name, address, credit card number?... I hang up!
... read the string (in 5 letter bytes) repeat as needed. Type the 25 digit number in re-confirm the number...
Last month (June '06), my computer died (fried caps on the motherboard) just after the 2nd Tuesday updates from MS. Ok lets get into my junk box and cobble something that will work (at least for now). Disassemble the box looking for other problems lets see...
Memory 2 sticks DDR 333 512 Megs OK
Motherboard K7S5A with athlon 1.1Meg Crispy caps splattered on board NG
Video card NVIDIA 5600 Ultra OK
Sound card Audigy 2 OK
TV tuner card Win TV Go OK
HD #1 120 GB OK
Partitioned as (1: ntfs XP home, 2: ntfs XP pro, 3: vfat32 win98SE)
Box with PS it was a little warm in there with lots of power hungry parts...
Replace with larger box
Junk box parts:
Motherboard K7S5A with Duron 1.2Meg not too bad one-step down on CPU
1 step up on speed
Larger case with PS OK
Reassemble machine...
Power up
Partition one XP home (with Junes updates) complains that it's a pirate copy of windows and will not work after 3 days unless I buy a genuine copy of windows... Ok do windows activation wizard
Power up... using the XP loader
Partition two XP Pro (without Junes updates) complains that it needs to be activated or the computer will stop working in 30 days
Same hardware... almost the same updates (missing june) and very different responses from the OS... windows WGA program?
Call tech support
Call the 800 number for activation,
Start loop
(answer the call automatically put me on hold drop call)
Repeat intermittently for four hours!!!
answer the call put me on hold...start the activation dialog... read the string (in 5 letter bytes)
press enter success !
Partition one now works normally (did not have to re-install programs)
Partition two now works normally (did not have to re-install programs)
All is good with the world (did you know if I can find a newer motherboard [cheap!])