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Activated but now Non-Geuine - Non-Validated
Friends I have not seen this condition before now so I need some guidance.
I do some refurbishing for pocket change in between consulting jobs - keeps me fresh on things like THIS! Had an Optiplex GX620 updated by somebody to Windows 7 Ultimate with Office 2010, all legit, Activated, Validated, Updated. Ran that rig pretty hard with testing programs etc for several days, and it had a hardware bug -something like a cold solder break or such - sudden non-boot condition that would come and go. Anyway, held back the drives and memory, sent the motherboard back for a swap but got a different board, of course. Today hooked everything up, and it appeared all would be swell, and then I added a DVD-RW, tested it awhile, and then while making some screen preference changes, I get the Bad Sign in the lower right: "NOT GENUINE" - so Win7 did one of its random sweeps, checked a hash somewhere, and came up with a bad compare, I guess.
Is this resolvable via some simple means?
Is there a malware floating about that can trigger this? [there seem to be a growing body of Win7 hacks coming online].
Should I reinstall?
The MS website on this as you know is not at all helpful.
thx
Z
p.s. and its STILL showing itself Activated ... AOK