RA3 error

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Was wondering if one of you RA3 modders could possibly help me out with this stupid frickin error I'm receiving. I know EA has a install limit "per serial #" on thier games to combat piracy, but damn I own this game and it's ligit and no one else has my serial # but me. I've tried to contact EA but arent getting any responses and I sure the hell am not buying another one. Is there any way around this? or better yet, how can I get a hold of a human tech support person at EA to try and resolve this?

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Cantdrawbutmod · Rocket Cyborg **Joined**: 19 Oct 2009

Have you tried launching the command center and enabling your game from it?Maybe the CD will need to be in for that to work.

Atari2600 · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:37 am Post subject:

The only thing that I can think of that would cause that is if you ran it on another computer previously, and tried running it on a new computer without deauthorizing the first one. The button to do that is in the settings menu under the general tab.

Also, could you give us a few more details surrounding this problem? My assumption could very well not be whats causing the problem to begin with...

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Ju-Jin · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:51 am Post subject:

You have to establish a case why you didn't deauthorize before, most cases the support gives you an additional try.
For the next times you reinstall windows always make sure to run http://activate.ea.com/deauthorize/deauthtool/DeAuthManagementTool.exe first.

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Ju-Jin wrote:

You have to establish a case why you didn't deauthorize before, most cases the support gives you an additional try.

So how do I go about doing this? establishing a case why I didn't deauthorize before?

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Ju-Jin · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 3:28 pm Post subject:

I don't know, never had that problem before but some just wrote they had to reinstall cause of different things like viruses, hard disk broke etc Anything that prevented you deauthing the game.

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

I just did a uninstall/reinstall and it didnt work. Still getting the same thing. But I did however manage to get another email sent to EA, so hopefully they will fix this for me this time around. Confused

I guess I'll just have to wait for thier response.

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Well EA really shocked me with thier quick response from my email. They resolved my problem by raising the limit on my serial#. Thanks guys for your help.

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