Comments on: Updating Drivers Can Cause Vista Deactivation http://www.breakitdownblog.com/updating-drivers-can-cause-vista-deactivation/ A technical, gaming and current-events news site Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:00:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: CODE PURPLE http://www.breakitdownblog.com/updating-drivers-can-cause-vista-deactivation/comment-page-1/#comment-17047 CODE PURPLE Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:28:39 +0000 http://www.breakitdownblog.com/2007/10/23/updating-drivers-can-cause-vista-deactivation/#comment-17047 A few months ago I got a CODE PURPLE on my HP Pavilion a1610n Media Center. Normally when you do an system restore, a little message is sent to the effect of "start system restore" but if you make any hardware changes like add more RAM... then you get the message "CODE PURPLE contact HP customer support at 1-800-xxxxxxx" Originally... when the victim called customer support, they would be transfered to the sales Dept. to buy a new computer after being told that their system was trashed. HP claimed that the CODE PURPLE was put there to "combat piracy" and not just put there to sabatoge peoples computers and force them into buying new ones. Well guess what? HP was sued. HP LOST! Lucky for me, I had an old copy of a Linux OS lying around and booted it up. I got back online and got a new, sealed Win XP pro CD with COA for $50 bucks. I would rather go without internet or run a broken Linux OS then pay $700 - $ 1000 dollars for a new PC... especially when the one I have works fine. The only thing that was wrong with it in the first place is that it was ILLEAGLY SABATOGED by HP! A few months ago I got a CODE PURPLE on my HP Pavilion a1610n Media Center. Normally when you do an system restore, a little message is sent to the effect of “start system restore” but if you make any hardware changes like add more RAM… then you get the message “CODE PURPLE contact HP customer support at 1-800-xxxxxxx”

Originally… when the victim called customer support, they would be transfered to the sales Dept. to buy a new computer after being told that their system was trashed. HP claimed that the CODE PURPLE was put there to “combat piracy” and not just put there to sabatoge peoples computers and force them into buying new ones. Well guess what?

HP was sued.

HP LOST!

Lucky for me, I had an old copy of a Linux OS lying around and booted it up. I got back online and got a new, sealed Win XP pro CD with COA for $50 bucks. I would rather go without internet or run a broken Linux OS then pay $700 – $ 1000 dollars for a new PC… especially when the one I have works fine. The only thing that was wrong with it in the first place is that it was ILLEAGLY SABATOGED by HP!

]]> By: The “Break it Down” Blog » Blog Archive » Microsoft Forcing Desktop Search on Users http://www.breakitdownblog.com/updating-drivers-can-cause-vista-deactivation/comment-page-1/#comment-6323 The “Break it Down” Blog » Blog Archive » Microsoft Forcing Desktop Search on Users Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:11:47 +0000 http://www.breakitdownblog.com/2007/10/23/updating-drivers-can-cause-vista-deactivation/#comment-6323 [...] light of the latest round of Microsoft’s other shining examples of what a leading tech company does, this is just gold. [...] [...] light of the latest round of Microsoft’s other shining examples of what a leading tech company does, this is just gold. [...]

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