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SL_E_INVALID_RSDP_COUNT
Where this result is produced
SL_E_INVALID_RSDP_COUNT is HRESULT 0xC004C4B0. It belongs to Genuine Validation. Its narrow boundary is: validation detects an impossible or suspicious count of RSDP/firmware records used in licensing evaluation.
Windows reports “Genuine Validation detected Windows licensing exploits”.
Objects and state transitions
| Different result | If the experiment instead proves “Active Directory-based activation evidence is malformed, incomplete or not valid for the current product”, diagnose that condition separately rather than treating it as this HRESULT. |
Recovery without broad resets
To correct this using supported mechanisms, preserve firmware tables and platform inventory and update firmware only through the OEM.
Changes that make this code harder to diagnose
- Avoid hand-editing signed blobs, protected files or firmware tables.
- Avoid using unofficial activation patches during integrity investigation.
- Avoid rebuilding stores before preserving hashes and event history.
Technical references
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