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Major Addon Loss Follows Motherboard Crash **solved**
virtuali:
--- Quote ---I re-tried the activation for Zurich from inside FS9, and was prompted with data entry fields labelled A to J
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To do an reactivation inside FS9, there's only one function, and it's "Register Serial", and it ask for only ONE information (no multiple data fields), your SERIAL NUMBER, and nothing else.
--- Quote from: grasshopper on February 26, 2011, 05:22:51 pm ---I entered the data supplied me in an email from you back in 2008, and got the error message 8225:7769. The difference between online and offline activation is also starting to baffle me as well.
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I think this is the main thing. You are again confusing different part of the program. The only information you need to use now, it's your SERIAL NUMBER. If you did an offline activation in 2008, none of that data is valid for your current hardware so, if you want to do ANOTHER OFF-line activation, you need to do a new one, can't use the old data.
However, it's all starts with your SERIAL NUMBER (the SERIAL NUMBER is indicated as "Serial Number" on your purchase receipt).
The difference between offline and online activation is very simple: if you HAVE online access, you ONLY need to insert your SERIAL NUMBER in the "Register Serial" function, and this will ONLY ask for your Serial Number, and nothing else. No multiple fields, nothing.
If the program can't find an internet connection (it might take a while, like 20-30 seconds so), you should see a the Offline activation dialog, which is explained HERE:
http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=565.msg3919#msg3919
In any case, it's not clear from your message if you have an internet connection or not, now.
--- Quote ---Also, if it becomes necessary to issue new codes to me, could you please try to ensure that such codes contain no alphabetic "o" or numeric "0", since those characters appear identical on the screen, and add immensely to my confusion, forcing me to try swapping the alphabetic "o" with the numeric "0" in a frustrating bid to see which permutation of identical looking characters will work.
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First, your Serial Number is still valid. And you can simply use COPY&PASTE from your purchase receipt, without worrying what the characters looks like.
grasshopper:
I have been working from a printout of 2008 emails, hoping to "save time" by typing in the serial number, rather than continuing my search for just where it was I saved a copy of the registration number notification email from 2008. I will dig that up now and use cut and paste as you advise, to avoid typos.
Could it be that despite my internet link being adequate for participation in discussion forums and whatnot, I will likely still have to undergo the offline registration process after correctly submitting my purchase serial number when prompted within Fs9 ?
Given that the offline registration process was the option that worked for me at the time of purchase, can I assume that something about my internet link will continue preventing ANY attempt to register online, and that I should go ahead and carry out the offline registration this time as well ?
virtuali:
--- Quote from: grasshopper on February 26, 2011, 07:58:12 pm ---Could it be that despite my internet link being adequate for participation in discussion forums and whatnot, I will likely still have to undergo the offline registration process after correctly submitting my purchase serial number when prompted within Fs9 ?
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If you have a firewall, and it's denying online access to FS9, then yes, it will as if you never had any connection. The easiest solution would be turning off the firewall but, failing to do this, you can still do the offline activation.
--- Quote ---Given that the offline registration process was the option that worked for me at the time of purchase, can I assume that something about my internet link will continue preventing ANY attempt to register online, and that I should go ahead and carry out the offline registration this time as well ?
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If your browser works, the offline activation server site ( http://activate.esellerate.net ) will surely work.
grasshopper:
Well I followed the offline registration steps from within FS9 with my internet link OFF, having found my original purchase receipt email from 2008 to obtain by copy and paste the registration serial number, which I in turn pasted as requested in the offline registration screen, to obtain the installation ID.
Next with the internet ON, I logged on to activate.esellerate.net and pasted the Installation ID in the space provided. The reply is pasted here from the activate.esllerate page as follows, for both Zurich and O'Hare which I tried in turn : Request Denied (-25012)
Can you spot any obvious missteps I may have taken so far ?
virtuali:
--- Quote from: grasshopper on February 26, 2011, 09:00:10 pm ---Can you spot any obvious missteps I may have taken so far ?
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What's the point of turning off your internet connection to purposely do the offline activation, which is more complex ? It's not that, since you originally activated offline once, you are forced to activate offline forever...
Can't you simply do everything with the internet connection on ?
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