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Thanks all. Finally figured it out. I went to Microsoft's support website and found this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312295 That led me to a genuine advance key tool that I had to download and run from Microsoft. That took care of it. Thanks all for your help.

Since the validation program keeps crashing every time I click on it. How do I manually re-enter my product key? Thanks very much. Ryan

Well, that didn't work. And MS wants $60 to fix this. Ridiculous. I mean, I can't even activate it. The program to do so crashes every time I try. Would it help to uninstall Service Pack 2. I recently reinstalled that (several weeks ago) and am wondering if that's part of the problem...

Doesn't it cost money to call MS?

I have Windows XP Pro. I had to reboot in safe mode because I was having troubles with my sound card. Now, when I boot up normally, windows tells me I have 3 days to activate my copy of windows xp. When I click "yes" nothing happens. Then, once XP starts up, I have a set of keys symbol...

How about something like this? http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A0549310

I'm looking for a 20" LCD monitor that will give accruate color/contrast and will not have any banding or ghosting problems. I work primarily in graphics and video. I am looking for a square monitor to add to a dual monitor setup. I'd like to spend around $400, give or take $100. Any...

Okay, so I give up. The monitor went back to Best Buy. Now, I'm interested in doing a little more research before buying again. I'm looking for an LCD monitor that I can do graphics and editing on, so the image quality needs to be high. Any thoughts? Thanks again for all your help. Ryan

Yeah, I'm sure the photos I'm looking at are high quality. I've seen how nice the skin tones look, even on my old CRT, so I'm guessing that it must be the LCD monitor that's causing the problems. Thanks everyone for your help. I'm going to return the monitor today. I'll let you know if a new...

Okay, I've done one more test. I have my system set at 32-bit color like it's supposed to be. Just for kicks, I changed it to 16-bit color. The strange thing is, they looked identical. I think the problem I might be having is that no matter whether I set the color to 16 or 32 bit, it looks...

Even if I don't look at video, but instead at full resolution photos that I've taken with my digital camera, skin tones look bad. Colors bleed and the color range appears very limited. However, when I look at the same photos on my CRT monitor or even the little LCD on the back of my camera...

First, thanks for everyone's help. I've followed all the steps recommended, such as installing the proper drivers and adjusting the resolution. Still, when I watch, for example, trailers at apple.com, they don't look nearly as good as they did on the CRT monitor. There are halos around...

Hi, today I bought a Samsung SyncMaster 225BW widescreen monitor. I hooked it up to my Dell Workstation running windows xp professional. My video card is an ATI Radeon 9800 Series with 1 DVI and 1 Analog port. The card is inserted into an AGP slot and has 256mb DDR Memory. I have tried...

Hello, I'm living in Germany for the next year. I bought my Dell laptop in the states. I have Windows XP Media Center Edition. I have bought several DVDs here, but can't watch them. I'm told I need to change the settings in Media Center so that I can watch DVDs from Germany. Can someone...

Excellent! I went with an ATI Radeon 9800 series card. I ordered it from a place that I'm easily able to return it to should it not work. But, I'm confident it will! Thanks so much for the great advice.

Hello, I have a Dell Precision Workstation 530. Below is a link to the documentation with regards to expansion slots: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ws530/en/sm/2excrd.htm#1148375 Does my computer support PCI Express cards? If not, does it support AGP 4x/8x? If not either of...

I have an Adobe Premiere project in which the audio files have a clicking sound when I display them in the timeline. This doesn't happen all the time, but does occur frequently. When I go to print to video or even create a movie file, the clicking still remains. The audio bitrate for the...