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by cwleng

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I have a serious problem regarding on Windows NT server.My original licences Windows NT server was installed in one of my computer but the problem is after 3 months it display out an message saying"Your Windows NT server is a evaluation version and had already expired and will be restart in 1 hour".Can you please advice me on this case because I encountered this problem 6 months ago
and my server keep on rebooting after 1 hour of the notification error and I have to reinstalled my Windows NT server again to solve the problem and now the same problem is back again.My server is connected to network
Please advice.
Thank you.

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by james a bailey

Well, the problem lies in not haveing a full version of NT Server. It sounds like you got an evaluation version, like they ship with MS cert books. To fix this problem you have to buy a full version of the OS, or keep installing every 3 months.

by battallion14

It isn't necessarily the CD media though. If you have boot/install disks that were created with an eval copy of NT you will still face the evaluation time restraints. Check to make sure your CD isn't a 120 day evaluation copy, if it isn't then create new boot/install disks from the CD media and reinstall NT. To create the boot/install disks from the CD the command is WINNT /OX. Good luck

by Member 35772270

Try install it from thc CD if It is not an evaluation copy of the CD it should upgrade your existing version from and eval to a full version and keep your existion settings.

by joshg

MS ships the upgrades and Full versions as the same product I think the eval product is different since it is mostly shipped CD based. The difference is the boot disks. So find the full version CD. Recreate the boot disk set from your full version then reload. I had this problem several times with the NT version upgrades, The install would ask me for the NT 3.51 CD to verify I qualified for the Version upgrade to 4.0. The problem was I kept the old software in a central office. I had been using the disks that came in the shrink wrap. I ran the WINNT /OX from the 4.0 CD. Rebooted from the new disks and loaded without a hitch.

This is a similar answer to one above but I thought I would give you some Trench Insight!

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