James Broadhead wrote: > On 2 February 2012 15:34, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Your reply made me think of something. I had a XP reinstall once that >>> required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive. They >>> said it recognized the change in the serial numbers. When I ran into >>> that before tho, it installed fine but gave 30 days to put in the >>> number. Does winders 7 have something similar? >> >> When you install Windows 7, Vista or XP (SP3 or newer), you can >> actually skip the product key step and it'll install as a trial >> version (30-day? 90-day? something like that). You can then "upgrade" >> to the real version by activating it when you're comfortable that >> everything is working properly -- or don't activate it at all and >> install Gentoo. Trying to keep it on-topic. :) > > This problem isn't related to Activation (which a lot of people have > been describing). Those errors tend to be pretty explicit. > > In my experience, Windows 7 is relatively lax at install-time, and > will give you 30 days leeway before it demands a key (which may or may > not require calling the hotline). > > I'd say that you've either been hit by; > - An incorrect OEM disk that's checking the BIOS for some kind of > Manufacturer flag (and not getting what it wants). > - A BIOS setting that Win7 doesn't like working with (I think that > IDE-compat/AHCI is a good avenue of approach). Mike's link looks good > (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2466753) > > > Also, install Linux, jeez :3 > >
I'm working on the Linux thing. He's warming up. It's like I told him, Firefox looks the same on Linux as it does on windoze. The differences between Linux, Kubuntu is what I am going for, and windoze is all under the hood. All they do is surf the web, check emails, and check on their banking stuff, maybe pay a bill or two. For what they do, Linux would be great. He's good enough on puters to upgrade Kubuntu too. It's just point and clicky anyway. Gentoo would be a bit much tho, unless I could build the packages here and install them there as binaries. I hope they get home soon. I want to check the BIOS settings. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
