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XP 32 bit on an Athlon 64
Posted by glenvdb on February 5th, 2006


Hi, I recently installed XP home on an AMD Athlon 64, and everytime I shut
the computer down, it wants me to re-activate Windows- stating there was a
hardware change. alll the device's drivers are loaded and working fine (no
problems in device manager), so far I have activated it 3 times over the
phone with microsoft. Any sugestions? I am thinking that buying XP 64 bit
will solve this problem, but in the mean time, what can you suggest?

Posted by glenvdb on February 5th, 2006


Ok, after reading through all other questions, I have come up with the
following:
You are prompted to activate Windows every time you restart your computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312295/en-us
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I have a retail copy of XP not an activation crack, (I did get my activation
key over the phone from MS), so that probably isn't the issue, But I will go
through the registry and check. I was just wondering if I had to do anything
"Different" for installing XP on an Athlon 64, because I just did a standard
"format and install" like everyone of the other hundreds of XP installs I
have done (this was the first 64 system I had built though).
-Thanks in advance
-Glen
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