spoon_key
08-21-2013, 10:28 PM
Yesterday my mothers laptop (HP Compaq Presario CQ61-423SA running W7 Home Premium SP1) decided to tell her that her Windows was not valid! So after over 2 years of use its now messed up!
I've tried all sorts of different things from the net all with no joy so I'm debating what to do!
There seems to be an issue with the serial number on the laptop as when it boots it says there is no serial and this seems to be whats causing windows to think the key is invalid!
I downloaded a Majicjellybean to see what the key is but its different from the one under the laptop, the problem here is that the rest of the key under the laptop is unreadable (Why they put it under the laptop were obvious use will make it erode is beyond me) so theres no way of knowing what it was!
So it seems for some reason the key has changed or is messed up in some way due to their being an issue with the laptop serial, I have no idea what I can do to try to sort this and I'm not sure phone call activation will sort this?
In the BIOS all the details are 0 (Zero) also which is supposed to be some SLIC issue what ever that is?
If push comes to shove I will either get a Windows 7 version from here or try to find a keygen which leads me to my next question, are there any keygens for windows 7 and if not is it ok to get a W7 version from here and install it over the top of the current W7 version?
Thanks
Spoon
I've tried all sorts of different things from the net all with no joy so I'm debating what to do!
There seems to be an issue with the serial number on the laptop as when it boots it says there is no serial and this seems to be whats causing windows to think the key is invalid!
I downloaded a Majicjellybean to see what the key is but its different from the one under the laptop, the problem here is that the rest of the key under the laptop is unreadable (Why they put it under the laptop were obvious use will make it erode is beyond me) so theres no way of knowing what it was!
So it seems for some reason the key has changed or is messed up in some way due to their being an issue with the laptop serial, I have no idea what I can do to try to sort this and I'm not sure phone call activation will sort this?
In the BIOS all the details are 0 (Zero) also which is supposed to be some SLIC issue what ever that is?
If push comes to shove I will either get a Windows 7 version from here or try to find a keygen which leads me to my next question, are there any keygens for windows 7 and if not is it ok to get a W7 version from here and install it over the top of the current W7 version?
Thanks
Spoon