From: Gary Britt 

Really, can't the Mac address for most NIC's be fixed via firmware or is
the MAC address set by the operating system?  I thought it was set by the
card's firmware?

Gary

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> "Mike N."  wrote in message
> news:e7s6t2dn3fuh9vdvg55949s6lsr00ln755{at}4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:36:36 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Actually if that's the case my problem is Windows Vista activation going
>>> bizarro with just a MAC address change  
>>  Does that mean you lose your Vista license if your NIC blows and you have
>> to replace it?
>
> I'm beginning to suspect it does. I did a google search and found others
> having similar reactivation problems as myself and Bob Comer  when running
> Vista in a virtual machine that isn't set for a fixed MAC address.  I'm not
> sure if there is some sort of internal count on the change of the MAC
> address and it's triggered after x number of changes though.  That's still
> an asinine way to trigger activation
>
>

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