AD8 Activation Code

[OzzieGeorge]

First time I have ever tried this so I'm in uncharted waters for a change. We have an AD8 on which the hard disk totally crashed. So having found an old drive small enough to be of use, I ghosted an image to it from another AD8.

All seemed well until I reached a screen asking for the activation code. This implies that the machine has a code burned into it and the image didn't match. Does anyone know if this is correct and if so how I can find the activation code. It may well be that I need to contact NEC but I somehow don't expect them to be willing to help.

Any assistance gratefully recieved.

Ozzie

 

[MercuryComm]

We had some techs try this exact same thing back in the days of the HD's and were never successful in making one work. Proper procedure was to order a replacement drive from NEC which of course is preloaded and ready to go. I checked NEC's parts site and all replacement HD's are discontinued. Replacement part is the compact flash type drive.

As for an activation code NEC/Active Voice would be the only place to get one if they will even give it to you.

 

[OzzieGeorge]

Yeah

Guessed as much. I could probably recover it if I had the image from the original drive but I am not sure I want to try to reconstruct the drive. Also the activation code is 13 digits and I don't even know the format if I wanted to try and work it out. I'll have to keep looking, fortunately it's a non urgent problem as this is now our maintenance spare (and that will have to be replaced). I just begrudge having to scrap something that is otherwise perfectly good.

 

[OzzieGeorge]

It has occoured to me that there wouldn't be a hard burned chip made for each AD8 so I'm thinking that there has to be an NVRAM chip somewhere on the board with the data that matches the activation code in the image. I'll have to check tomorrow and see if it is accessible. Anybody any thoughts on this possibility?