CD-Key Issue
Posted: 2010-02-25 14:38
I've been struggling with this problem for awhile now and figured someone might have had the same issues and could help me out.
I had been playing pr for years with the bf2 that i had originally bought back when it came out. In December my hard drive gave out and i wasn't able to get it replaced and reformatted for a few weeks. When i finally did the first thing i did was go to install bf2. But when i opened the case the manual was gone. So i asked some of my friends who i knew used to play if i could use their copy or cd key, but none were able to locate it. Getting desperate i started just searching around online and found a list of bf2 keys. I tried one and it allowed me to install so i was all excited, but when i tried to play online i got an invalid cd key error. So i decided to hell with, ill just buy another copy, its worth it. So i uninstalled bf2 and reinstalled with the new copy which i bought off amazon. but im still getting the invalid cd-key. I figured maybe there was some files that werent removed from the original install that were causing me to get the error, so i followed ea's instructions on a manual uninstall, then reinstalled again with the new copy and im still getting the cd key error.
Its a brand new game so im not sure whats going on. I dont know if its more likely that there is still some lingering files from the original install, or if my new cd-key that i just bought is invalid. I'm prepared to reformat my computer again if i have to but id rather leave that as a last option.
Any help or experience anyone could relay would help me out alot.
thanks
I had been playing pr for years with the bf2 that i had originally bought back when it came out. In December my hard drive gave out and i wasn't able to get it replaced and reformatted for a few weeks. When i finally did the first thing i did was go to install bf2. But when i opened the case the manual was gone. So i asked some of my friends who i knew used to play if i could use their copy or cd key, but none were able to locate it. Getting desperate i started just searching around online and found a list of bf2 keys. I tried one and it allowed me to install so i was all excited, but when i tried to play online i got an invalid cd key error. So i decided to hell with, ill just buy another copy, its worth it. So i uninstalled bf2 and reinstalled with the new copy which i bought off amazon. but im still getting the invalid cd-key. I figured maybe there was some files that werent removed from the original install that were causing me to get the error, so i followed ea's instructions on a manual uninstall, then reinstalled again with the new copy and im still getting the cd key error.
Its a brand new game so im not sure whats going on. I dont know if its more likely that there is still some lingering files from the original install, or if my new cd-key that i just bought is invalid. I'm prepared to reformat my computer again if i have to but id rather leave that as a last option.
Any help or experience anyone could relay would help me out alot.
thanks