Freakin Microsoft!

[Calloway]

So before I went and bought a new mobo and chip I decided to do a few manual "maybe" tests with my comp. I removed the video card as last time the system ran it ran pretty hot and I did the BioFungus and reset the bios. Everything works great now in so far as I can tell.

Last week I took my hard drive to my brother's to test it and it gave me a "system has changed, windows must be reactivated in 3 days". I figure no big whoop, if I get my comp running it'll be ok. Well I was wrong. Now I can't get to my files or programs because windows is locked out until I get it activated. Thing is I'm pretty sure I lost the cd key. Yes, it is a legal I own copy. I can't believe those bastards would do this to an already registered copy.

Anywho, any help or advice would be helpful and the "you know what" type help can be PMed to me as I figure it's only fair since I own this os.