From: mike 

>There was an issue with the SIL 3114 driver that caused the disk
>serial number to be reported as different each boot


Imagine if that were done intentionally for security reasons?

 /m





On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:45:54 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>It appears some with ASUS mbs and the SIL 3114 raid chip have experienced
>another feature of Vista - constant deactivation - and have quickly gone
>through their MSDN 10 licenses
>
>from the Microsoft.public.windows.vista.general group
>
>---------------------
>Subject: Windows keeps deactivating
>
>And I have SIL 3114 on-board raid chip (ASUS m/b)!
>
>I thought I installed the latest dirver.
>
>Guys please let me know if you will find proper fix for this problem - I
>have run out of my keys now! And it says - Windows is not genuine on my
>desktop.
>
>I had 10 keys from MSDN subscription. I tried to open incident for this but
>stuck in the middle - one department reffers me to another. And it goes in
>circles :-
>-------------------------------------
>Subject - Vista activation lost after every restart
>
>That is the issue, you more than likely need an updated driver from Silicon
>Image.  There was an issue with the SIL 3114 driver that caused the disk
>serial number to be reported as different each boot which could cause your
>issue.  An updated driver should be available to address this issue.
>Do you have a case number where it was told to you that the processor was
>the problem?
>

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