Velocity Micro x20 BIOS update; Vista Home Premium key invalid?

I've had problems with my laptop locking up and bsods after owning it a little over a week, so I tried the bios update like other C90S users have. However, upon booting into Windows I am presented with a screen that tells me that "The Windows Vista Home Premium product key you typed is invalid for activation." I'm afraid to contact Velocity Micro because it says on the paper that they only provide support for unaltered operating system and drivers. Isn't that ridiculous!

I would greatly appreciate it if a x20 owner could download the Asus Update Utility and save their original bios to the hard drive and upload it to the forums or send it to my e-mail (accepttheownage @ gmail.com)
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/flash/AsusUpdt_V71003.zip

Once I get the original BIOS back in my laptop I am seriously thinking of returning this pos laptop to Circuit City and getting a different one.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=141730

Ken has all the bioses up on the site. Just follow his directions and you will be fine. If the key says its invalid can you at least can you get into windows? If you can try activating by phone it will most like work. Also go to system and at the bottom under windows key click change key and put in your key again and see if that works, it did for me once.

 

It sounds like the bios changed what windows read the hardware as. just call microsoft and they will fix it.

 

I ended up having to do the phone activation twice with some "representatives" in India. The second time was because after a system restore right after the first activation it toldd me the product key was invalid again. The woman kept on asking me whether or not I was only installing Vista on this one computer, and finally gave me the key after me telling her 100 times that yes, I was reactivating it on my laptop on which it came preinstalled. Ugh, it was frustrating, but in the end I ended up reinstalling Windows and the laptop runs beautifully, no problems as of yet!

It seems to be running faster and more stable than it was when I first got it. Thanks for the help

 

I recently bought a Velocity Micro X20 and am also experiencing random BSODs on Vista startup (normally ecache.sys or atapi.sys).

I'm on C90S BIOS version 502 - I was just wondering if updating your BIOS resolved your BSOD issues accepttheownage? If so what version are you on?

Really hoping it's not a hardware issues - taking laptop back to circuit city isn't an easy option for me as I live in Ireland .