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Oliver Falk wrote:
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So what's the truth now? Do they expire or not? Not that I'm planning
to actually *really* use it, but reinstalling it all the time doesn't
make much sense as well :-) Having a spare disk with an installation
Windows for Alpha at hand sounds good. I've seen some tools that work
on Alpha-Windows that I'd like to give a try...
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Best,
<br>
oliver
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As already mentioned, here is the trick:<br>
Set the BIOS date to 2024<br>
Install.<br>
Set date back to present.<br>
<br>
They will "time out" 455 days after teh BIOS date of when you installed.<br>
If you try to set to later than 2024 they "wrap around" to 1910 ( or
something like that).<br>
I suspect a precursor of the 2038 bug.<br>
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