Abstract: A device for activating independent software and hardware including a communication port of an independent software and hardware activating module for receiving activating guidance information of an independent component, and a control module of the independent hardware and software activating module for generating cluing information according to the activating guidance information, and transmitting the cluing information to a main equipment, the main equipment displaying the cluing information on a screen of the main equipment, and prompting a user to choose between activating methods to gain an activating code, the user gaining the activating code according to a chosen activating method, and entering the activating code into the main equipment, the main equipment transmitting the activating code through the communication port to the control module for verification of the activating code.