MAK key asking to activate Office 2010 every 90 days?

Here's a good brain dumper!  I have 40 HP laptops that our students use occaisionally with a volume-license.  So they are off network most of the time.  We set them up on MAK keys instead of our KMS.  We use a program called
Deep Freeze so that the PC configuration can not change once it has been set up and frozen.  As I understand, the MAK key activation is forever.  So why would Office 2010 be asking us to activate every 90 days.  This takes a tech 2-3 days to
unfreeze--activate again--and then freeze the PC once more.  
Any thoughts?

Hi Carey Carter,
As far as I know, Deep Freeze is a kernel-level driver that protects hard drive integrity by redirecting information being written to the hard drive or partition, leaving the original data intact.
If one hard disk fails and it is replaced, that computer must be reactivated.
You can refer to this article for more detail information:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff678211(v=office.14).aspx
If there is anything I can do for you regarding this issue, feel free to post back.
Best regards,
Greta Ge
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
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