From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CWgcb-0002U6-TX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:46:42 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CWgcb-0002TK-5c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:46:41 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CWgcb-0002Sz-1n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:46:41 -0500 Received: from [131.111.8.136] (helo=ppsw-6.csi.cam.ac.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CWgSk-0007CG-PM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:36:30 -0500 Received: from rn214.trin.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.193.203]:39316) by ppsw-6.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.136]:25) with esmtp id 1CWgSe-0002tD-MF (Exim 4.43) for qemu-devel@nongnu.org (return-path ); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:36:24 +0000 Message-ID: <41A39138.3010405@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:36:24 +0000 From: Richard Neill MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] WinXP, Error code: 0x800703e6 - data points Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel Dear All, I'm experiencing the "A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error code: 0x800703e6." bug. I'm using a site-licensed version of XP-pro (which identifies itself as build 2600), and the most recent 2004-11-22_23 snapshot of qemu. I managed to successfully make it install, and it will boot happily, but only in safe mode with no networking. I just thought you might like to know the results of my research: namely that ALL of the following workarounds FAIL: 1) http://www.talkroot.com/archive/topic/18578-1.html Start/run regsvr32 regwizc.dll Then start/run regsvr32 licdll.dll 2) http://www.talkroot.com/showthread.php?threadid=18578 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310794 3)Created normal and limited users (while in safe mode). These also fail in normal mode. 4) Trying: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306081 The commands they specify don't actually work, (the recovery-mode doesn't like the %), but doing what they MEAN, rather than what they say, manages to succesfully restore exact copies of the former files. It doesn't fix the problem. Anyway, hopefully this will save someone else an hour of wasted googling and experiments. As for Product Activation, it just makes me grateful for Linux! Best wishes Richard -- rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk ** http://www.richardneill.org Richard Neill, Trinity College, Cambridge, CB21TQ, U.K.