Guest fonz Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 When re-starting my PC in Windows XP, it now stops before the Welcome screen with a message " Invalid electronic serial number". By pressing F1 the boot up continues as normal. How can I prevent this error and allow normal boot up. Thanks
Guest Elmo Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: Re-starting computer fonz wrote: > When re-starting my PC in Windows XP, it now stops before the Welcome screen > with a message "Invalid electronic serial number". By pressing F1 the boot > up continues as normal. > How can I prevent this error and allow normal boot up? Thanks Maybe something here: http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=%22Invalid+electronic+serial+number%22&qt_s=Search+Groups -- Joe =o)
Guest fonz Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Re: Re-starting computer Thanks for the info. Exactly right. Just entered old serial number into BIOS and away it went. "Elmo" wrote: > fonz wrote: > > When re-starting my PC in Windows XP, it now stops before the Welcome screen > > with a message "Invalid electronic serial number". By pressing F1 the boot > > up continues as normal. > > How can I prevent this error and allow normal boot up? Thanks > > Maybe something here: > > http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=%22Invalid+electronic+serial+number%22&qt_s=Search+Groups > > -- > Joe =o) >
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