Invalid Valve Serial

Animositas · April 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">Can't Play Online.</div> I just got access to a cable modem and just installed my Half Life (G of the Y Edition) and i put in my legitimately purchased CD into my legitimately purchased CD Drive. I put my legitimate Serial key into the stupid orange box and start to play my legitimately purchased game. Well, I get ready for a night of fun filled alien blasting action when WHAM! a big orange box pops up and says "Invalid VALVe Serial" so i click ok, thinking it would bring up another menu to input a serial number in. Well...no can do. I saw someone else had this problem but no one seems to have it otherwise. I tried to remoce it from my computer, reinstall it and i remove everything affiliated with sierra from my computer. I reinstall Half Life and go to start it to get that stupid box to come up but no. It doesnt come up! What should I do? I can't take the game back, it came from Best Buy (place of no returns) and i dont have the receipt. (the same message comes up when trying to play NS too...)

EDIT:..i guess i left out that i installed it on a friends computer after i installed it on mine....

-Animositas

Thansal · April 2003

ok, you CAN manualy edit your registry to pull out the CD key

I am actualy guessing that you actualy put in the OpFor or TFC CD Keys by mistake ;D

it is located in:
(or somewhere near)

MyComputer\HKEY_CURRENT_USSER\Software\Valve\Half-Life\settings\key

to get at this type regedit at the run line

you can also simply search ussing regedit for Half-Life or Valve or Key

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oh and there is a good chance that this will not fix the problem, I periodicly get told my CD key is invalide, try alot of diff servers and come back <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

~T

Animositas · April 2003

Yay someone responded! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> but anyway, when I went into MyComputer, there was no folder called HKEY_Current_User. Did you mean click on the D drive button? at the moment I don't have my CD. I think im going to get a bunch of keys off of KaZaa or something and just try them. Stupid thing.

Edit. BTW There was no key for TFC or OpFor. there was one Cd key on the jewel case for the actual game.

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Thansal · April 2003

as I said you have to use regedit just type it into the run line on your comp

Animositas · April 2003

Holy ****! yay! i found it! But anyways, thank you much for helpin me out, dont know if its going to work, but I shall try. Anyone got a serial number? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Azrael_38 · April 2003

This is probably the only reason why your Serial isn't working... People share with others/use other's CD-Key's... This makes everyone overlap CD keys... If you just got your own CD-Key and kept it secret, then maybe no one would have this problem...

2of12B0RG · April 2003

Eheheheh. 2 guys that I used to live with decided they wanted to play action half life after they saw me play it. So they stole my HL cd and installed it on their computers. They thought they were gonna play until the cd key crap came up. So... what did they do...? They went to wal mart, knifed the HL box open, put the Jewel Cd case on the shelf, then typed the cd key into their cell phones...

Anyways, my point is... you never know if your CD key is safe!

Thansal · April 2003

yes yes, we know

HL CD key gens are also out there and they do work

I find this a horrible practice (Primarily b/c I get 'your HL cd key is in use' so I can't fuggen play)

Guspaz · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Apr 13 2003, 02:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> yes yes, we know

HL CD key gens are also out there and they do work

I find this a horrible practice (Primarily b/c I get 'your HL cd key is in use' so I can't fuggen play)  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Actually, were safe... For now. Keygens don't generate valid WON CD keys, only valid for single player.

However, there is this program that generates random valid single-player keys then tries them on WON. Our CD-keys are not safe after all! But the chances of this working for someone, and getting your CD-key are thankfully low.

Animositas · April 2003

The thing is, I bought mine fair an square. The box was fine, everything was great. I have 56k at the time I installed it so I never played online. Then I went to my friends house, installed it, put in my legitimate (i like that word) key and WHAM Invalid key. Thats the only time I ever logged into WON, go figure. I got a list of CD keys and mine was on it. Damn them.

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TacoSupreme · April 2003

I believe sierra can give you a new key if you return some information like UPC Code, Photocopy of CD, Cover of the manual or something like that, they might charge some shipping for it, but I remember reading that somewhere.

Jower · April 2003

I can download the covers for every darn game ever released in 10 min....
hehe
And what's an UPC code ?

Thansal · April 2003

bar code on the box of the game (you probably checked it along time ago)

You can get a new HL CD (with CD key I think) by sending them your current CD + like $10

go to their webby and look around and you will find it

Jower · April 2003

10 bucks ?
I could buy a new game for that...
hehe

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