Please get your octane live accounts for the pre-2.3 version

Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:49 pm

Im fixing to reinstall my o/s windows 7 format the hard drive and reinstall my software do i need to deactivate octane before i do this or will it be ok?

thanks

rob

Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:42 am

Radiance, you say to log in and retrieve these(the Live account info). When I log in, all I see is my account info.

radiance · Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:07 am

rob72inmo wrote:Im fixing to reinstall my o/s windows 7 format the hard drive and reinstall my software do i need to deactivate octane before i do this or will it be ok?

thanks

rob

yes, otherwise you won't be able to use it anymore as it will be activated on the old machine.
we're adding a deactivate button in the customer area.

Radiance

radiance · Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:08 am

adrencg wrote:Radiance, you say to log in and retrieve these(the Live account info). When I log in, all I see is my account info.

hang on a sec, we're sychronizing more users today, you're will be in the customer area later today.

Radiance

Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:36 am

Thanks, mine's in my profile - cheers !!!
Looking forward to testing the latest version !!!

Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:53 am

...Im fixing to reinstall my o/s windows 7...

Just noting also, deactivation, and after the stand-down period, reactivation, is also necessary in the case of moving Octane across to the other O/S in a dualboot, or if you have Octane on both, rebooting to the other install.

Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:10 pm

Can I run 2.2 and pre-2.3 together (same machine, same system)?

radiance · Wed Aug 18, 2010 4:33 pm

pixelrush wrote:
...Im fixing to reinstall my o/s windows 7...
Just noting also, deactivation, and after the stand-down period, reactivation, is also necessary in the case of moving Octane across to the other O/S in a dualboot, or if you have Octane on both, rebooting to the other install.

all people who could run octane on a machine with 2 OS'es, should be able to run 2.3+ without any reactivations.
it is, however, not tetsed yet, it's on our list for the next intermediate.

Radiance

Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:20 pm

Well it didnt work for me yet.
Immediate use on reboot to different O/S could be handy for testing purposes but in practice its probably not that necessary for daily use.
I will remove my XP-32 Octane installs and just have a win7-64 Octane live one from now on.

Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:49 pm

radiance wrote:
rob72inmo wrote:Im fixing to reinstall my o/s windows 7 format the hard drive and reinstall my software do i need to deactivate octane before i do this or will it be ok?

thanks

rob
yes, otherwise you won't be able to use it anymore as it will be activated on the old machine.
we're adding a deactivate button in the customer area.

Radiance

So what happens in the case of a hard drive / hardware failure where you don't have a chance to deactivate on said machine before hand? Will the customer area deactivate button, remove the license from the downed machine and release it for use after repair or on a new box? Also is the license locked to just the CPU or the system as a whole, i.e. do I have to deactivate to make hardware changes to my system?