Activation after hardware changes.

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  1. Voodoo
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       New #31

    I made you agree! My apologies!

    Thanks for the explanations as to why all this happens.


    @jumanji - That will be a change of habit for me in the future, i always hust disabled all the stuff i thought i would not need, you live and learn.

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  3. NoelDP
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       New #32

    You *may* have been all right if all you'd done was disable the NIC - but you activated with a different NIC.
    If you'd activated by telephone with *no* NIC installed, you could probably have gotten away with switching NIC's at will.
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