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Hi, I had to format my computer cause Windows crashed and couldnt startup anymore. The warranty assistance for my PC installed a new service pack. My PC is not connected to the internet, so I need to activate/deactivate via mail or manually, in another PC, using serial n° and hardware code. I installed FlamingCliffs2 again and tried to activate, I noticed that the hardware code is changed. With help of a friend, I went on the net at the proactive.star.force activation page. The proactive.star.force.com activation now says my serial number is not valid cause it's activated yet. I tried to deactivate too, but the software told me FC2 is not activated. 1. my FC2 it's not activated because I formatted everything, so I cant get a deactivation code 2. the Proactive activation site tells I cant activate because my serial is activated yet (yes, the activation before formatting) 3. the Proactive deactivation fails because I havn't got a deactivation code for the previous hardware code. What should I do? Thank you for answers, Enrico Italy

@Panzertard I think I haven't understand correctly what you mean for HP QuickButtons... My hp QuickButtons are currently disabled, I guess. They don't do anything... exept for volume, power, wifi. They all compare in the HardwareDevices List, though. I uninstalled HP software the first month I got the laptop, so I think Quickbuttons have been uninstalled too.. They don't do anything since that time. Everything in BS is working, I mean if I assign "pause" and "esc" commands to joystick button they work properly, and the sim works too.. but still no keyboard... I can fly the helycopter and use every switch onboard with mouse, but nothing assigned to keyboard works BY the keyboard.

Thank you very much for the suggestions...:thumbup: I uninstalled HP Quickplay software a lot months ago (because it was reducing my laptop speed) My laptop was originally provided with these special touchbuttons, from left to right: Power/Suspension button Quickplay Software launch quickbutton Mute button VolumeControl - works like a touchpad horizontal scroll Skip prev button play/stop button skip fwd button stop button wi-fi on/off button Only Power, VolumeControl, Wi-Fi buttons are now working... but I havn't found any software or specific driver for them.. All those buttons are shown under Hardware and Devices list, Control Panel, in System Devices list, named (italian) PULSANTE DI APPLICAZIONE DIRETTO (english: APPLICATION QUICKLAUNCH BUTTON ..I guess). They seems to be working correctly, even if there aren't function assigned, but in the list of devices there isn't a description to understand their own functions, so it's impossible to determine what they do..

Yes, my keyboard is provided with special touch buttons -like sensors- for volume, multimedia functions and wi-fi connection... and in BS they work fine.. I will try with another usb keyboard, because I don't know exactly where to find preferencies to disable upper panel touch buttons... The On/Off button is in this panel :)

Hello everybody, I'm looking in this forum on every day during last two weeks, but my problems are still there... So I hope to post a useful thread. Sorry for my bad english, I'm Italian. I use a HP DV7 1080 laptop, with IBM 101-102 keys enhanced keyboard, and X52. Vista32. BS Istallation and activation were successful, but when I tried to start a training, or a mission, or anything else, as soon as I entered in the pit the keyboard seemed to be OFF. Impossible to unpause, impossible to use ESC command, nothing worked. This happens ONLY in the sim, I tried keyboard in other applications, and I haven't found problems there. I just remapped ESC and PAUSE commands to joystick buttons, and they finally work properly, but even if I unpause the game, the keyboard still does not respond. The only working commands are the X52 axis, button mapped controls, and mouse. So i tried to set focus on BS by pressing ALT+TAB twice... No go.. I tried to update keyboard drivers, but a message told me the drivers installed are the most recent avaiable. No go... I've read about regional keyboard layouts, I'm running the English box version. So I changed my regional preferences from ITAlian to EN uk and EN us, but it's the same. To avoid conflicts between system language and keyboard preferred layout I tried to set the same language and keyboard, and I set keyboard autoselection OFF... No go... I tried to remap some commands to themselves, to see if it's an option menu issue. Things aren't going better... No go.. I tried to deactivate, uninstall and reinstall BS... No go.. I tried uninstalling Saitek drivers and profiler. If I connect X52 usb and launch the sim, BS still recognize X52 axis and buttons properly, but still no keyboard!! THE MYSTERY>> there is only one key combo that works: CTRL+[FN]+[PAUSE], that shows frame rate and rendering info. I'm getting mad to understand where is the core of the problem... My laptop specs: HP DV7 1080 INTEL CORE 2DUO T9400 @2.53Ghz VISTA 6.0 32bit Service Pack 1 NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 4 GB ram Thanks for reading, Any help would be great.