Is my pc dying!?

Hi Tex~,

Glad to hear that fixed it. TheDuck is right, nVidia onboard NICs can be an issue, particularly with the later driver sets.

I guess the issue was provoked when your router fried?

:)

Yes I do believe your right nihil, so I guess my windows isnt dying after all.... although I still find it odd that I was asked to re-activate my windows. I guess the stop error combined with my installing and reinstall drivers caused windows to think it was an illegal copy?

Well,

I guess we are both pretty much in the dark as to how the current MS DRM works?

When your router died, your WiFi NIC had nothing to talk to and Windows suddenly "discovered" the onboard NIC. That, together with the driver changes might have led it to suspect that you had a new MoBo

Remember that for OEM versions, MS consider a new MoBo to be a new computer, and the OEM version of Windows is not transferrable. On re-activation it would discover that it was the same MoBo, or an identical replacement, which is allowed.

Actually you can change the MoBo, but telephone Microsoft, don't try to activate it online ;)

I did the online reactivation, should I have phoned them instead?

phone em if you HAVE changed MoBo .........

you didn't, so it's all good :)

ok thank yall for putting my mind at rest. im just glad my pc is still gonna work! ;)