mutiple windows activations from same location.

[Guest ColOneill]

I recently purchased several (35) pc's at a government surplus wharehouse.

The machines all have valid win XP pro stickers. Since they are ex government

pc's the harddrives have been stripped out of them. I was using the "new" pc

to replace older ones here at work, and everything was fine till a week ago.

I had reinstalled and activated about 16 machines with no problems, but now I

am forced to call microsoft every time I activate one. They are valid codes,

but I think microsoft has become suspicious of so many activations from the

same IP. If the code is valid why should they care? Is there any way to prove

to them that these are legit reinstalls without calling after every

activation?

[Guest Ghostrider]

Re: mutiple windows activations from same location.

 

 

ColOneill wrote:

> I recently purchased several (35) pc's at a government surplus wharehouse.

> The machines all have valid win XP pro stickers. Since they are ex government

> pc's the harddrives have been stripped out of them. I was using the "new" pc

> to replace older ones here at work, and everything was fine till a week ago.

> I had reinstalled and activated about 16 machines with no problems, but now I

> am forced to call microsoft every time I activate one. They are valid codes,

> but I think microsoft has become suspicious of so many activations from the

> same IP. If the code is valid why should they care? Is there any way to prove

> to them that these are legit reinstalls without calling after every

> activation?

 

Same IP address for all the machines? Did you install Windows XP from

a single image file as well? Sure, Microsoft would be suspicious. Try

this: Before activating, use Microsoft's Product Key tool and assign

the proper COA's to the individual computer. Also, re-set networking

by assigning each machine an unique IP or use dynamic IP addressing.

[Guest ColOneill]

Re: mutiple windows activations from same location.

 

 

 

"Ghostrider" wrote:

>

> ColOneill wrote:

>

> > I recently purchased several (35) pc's at a government surplus wharehouse.

> > The machines all have valid win XP pro stickers. Since they are ex government

> > pc's the harddrives have been stripped out of them. I was using the "new" pc

> > to replace older ones here at work, and everything was fine till a week ago.

> > I had reinstalled and activated about 16 machines with no problems, but now I

> > am forced to call microsoft every time I activate one. They are valid codes,

> > but I think microsoft has become suspicious of so many activations from the

> > same IP. If the code is valid why should they care? Is there any way to prove

> > to them that these are legit reinstalls without calling after every

> > activation?

>

> Same IP address for all the machines? Did you install Windows XP from

> a single image file as well? Sure, Microsoft would be suspicious. Try

> this: Before activating, use Microsoft's Product Key tool and assign

> the proper COA's to the individual computer. Also, re-set networking

> by assigning each machine an unique IP or use dynamic IP addressing.

>

>

they are all from the same ip.... because everything outside of my network

is seen as only the public ip. i could give it a static or dynamic, but once

that intranet ip hits the firewall... all trafic is routed to the public

ip... which does not change, and i am not going to even try to download a ip

masker, then try to activate:)

 

microsoft product key tool? is that something to be downloaded from

microsoft, and not already installed? Also the COA labels are good. That was

the main reason i bought the machines. They only recently started making me

call about activation.

 

i have about 50 win xp cd's and have been swapping them up durring installs,

so all of the installs are not from the same image file.

 

if I get a usb modem, and locate a dial up account (which would give me the

fresh ip) do you think that would work. I am not cheeting MS. I just do not

want to include the 6 min phone call on every install, and have them think

that i am doing something nefarious.

[Guest Malke]

Re: mutiple windows activations from same location.

 

ColOneill wrote:

 

(snippage)

 

i have about 50 win xp cd's and have been swapping them up durring

> installs, so all of the installs are not from the same image file.

>

> if I get a usb modem, and locate a dial up account (which would give me

> the fresh ip) do you think that would work. I am not cheeting MS. I just

> do not want to include the 6 min phone call on every install, and have

> them think that i am doing something nefarious.

 

Call for activation and wait for a human. Tell them exactly your story and

ask them how they would like to handle this. When my partner and I had to

do something similar - granted, we only had to call on about 12 machines

and not 50 - we did it all in one telephone call.

 

Malke

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[Guest ColOneill]

Re: mutiple windows activations from same location.

 

 

 

"Malke" wrote:

> ColOneill wrote:

>

> (snippage)

>

> i have about 50 win xp cd's and have been swapping them up durring

> > installs, so all of the installs are not from the same image file.

> >

> > if I get a usb modem, and locate a dial up account (which would give me

> > the fresh ip) do you think that would work. I am not cheeting MS. I just

> > do not want to include the 6 min phone call on every install, and have

> > them think that i am doing something nefarious.

>

> Call for activation and wait for a human. Tell them exactly your story and

> ask them how they would like to handle this. When my partner and I had to

> do something similar - granted, we only had to call on about 12 machines

> and not 50 - we did it all in one telephone call.

>

> Malke

> --

> MS-MVP

> Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

> FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

>

> i thought about that, but i was worried they would lock out anything comming from my ip. how did you get someone not indian on the phone?