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Hey all,
I built my last computer around the time XP came out. Now, almost 2 years later, I'm thinking about upgrading the cpu and motherboard. My questions is about the windows activation. This upgrade will more than likely cause it all kinds of fits. Has anyone been down this road and did you have to contact MS about it? How difficult was it? Thanks, Bryan |
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netnews.insightbb.com wrote:
Hey all, I built my last computer around the time XP came out. Now, almost 2 years later, I'm thinking about upgrading the cpu and motherboard. My questions is about the windows activation. This upgrade will more than likely cause it all kinds of fits. Has anyone been down this road and did you have to contact MS about it? How difficult was it? You will have to clean install. XP will require reactivation. If you have not reactivated in the last 120 days, you should have no issues. If you do have issues, simply call MS. |
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No problem. Just do a repair reinstall. You'll either have to reactivate or
not, but odds are if you have to reactivate it'll happen cleanly online. -- Walter Clayton - MS MVP(WinXP) Associate Expert http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. http://www.dts-l.org http://support.microsoft.com/service...on/default.asp "netnews.insightbb.com" wrote in message news:raHqa.632606$3D1.349372@sccrnsc01... Hey all, I built my last computer around the time XP came out. Now, almost 2 years later, I'm thinking about upgrading the cpu and motherboard. My questions is about the windows activation. This upgrade will more than likely cause it all kinds of fits. Has anyone been down this road and did you have to contact MS about it? How difficult was it? Thanks, Bryan |
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Kadaitcha Man,
The changes will not require a clean install, which translates to wiping the disk. They will require a repair install and reactivation. -- Sir_George "Kadaitcha Man" wrote in message news:cf9ae0e4462f79ea62f6bb622f6d9158@TeraNews... netnews.insightbb.com wrote: Hey all, I built my last computer around the time XP came out. Now, almost 2 years later, I'm thinking about upgrading the cpu and motherboard. My questions is about the windows activation. This upgrade will more than likely cause it all kinds of fits. Has anyone been down this road and did you have to contact MS about it? How difficult was it? You will have to clean install. XP will require reactivation. If you have not reactivated in the last 120 days, you should have no issues. If you do have issues, simply call MS. |
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Sir_George wrote:
Kadaitcha Man, I built my last computer around the time XP came out. Now, almost 2 years later, I'm thinking about upgrading the cpu and motherboard. My questions is about the windows activation. This upgrade will more than likely cause it all kinds of fits. Has anyone been down this road and did you have to contact MS about it? How difficult was it? You will have to clean install. XP will require reactivation. If you have not reactivated in the last 120 days, you should have no issues. If you do have issues, simply call MS. The changes will not require a clean install, which translates to wiping the disk. They will require a repair install and reactivation. Right, well. When he comes back complaining it's all ****ed up, you can fix it for him, eh? |
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"Kadaitcha Man" wrote in message ... Sir_George wrote: Kadaitcha Man, I built my last computer around the time XP came out. Now, almost 2 years later, I'm thinking about upgrading the cpu and motherboard. My questions is about the windows activation. This upgrade will more than likely cause it all kinds of fits. Has anyone been down this road and did you have to contact MS about it? How difficult was it? You will have to clean install. XP will require reactivation. If you have not reactivated in the last 120 days, you should have no issues. If you do have issues, simply call MS. The changes will not require a clean install, which translates to wiping the disk. They will require a repair install and reactivation. Right, well. When he comes back complaining it's all ****ed up, you can fix it for him, eh? Since he made the recommendation he did, I doubt he has the mental capabilties to fix anything. A clean install is the only way to go. Anything else is asking for trouble. Reactivating is a small price to pay for stability. Buster |
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Kadaitcha Man,
Misinformation has never helped anyone. So, the fact that your advice is probably an overkill was my point. Generally hardware upgrades don't cause problems so severe that you need to format the drive. Your use of profanity is unnecessary, try and use more acceptable language. -- Sir_George "Kadaitcha Man" wrote in message ... Sir_George wrote: Kadaitcha Man, I built my last computer around the time XP came out. Now, almost 2 years later, I'm thinking about upgrading the cpu and motherboard. My questions is about the windows activation. This upgrade will more than likely cause it all kinds of fits. Has anyone been down this road and did you have to contact MS about it? How difficult was it? You will have to clean install. XP will require reactivation. If you have not reactivated in the last 120 days, you should have no issues. If you do have issues, simply call MS. The changes will not require a clean install, which translates to wiping the disk. They will require a repair install and reactivation. Right, well. When he comes back complaining it's all ****ed up, you can fix it for him, eh? |
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Sir_George wrote:
your advice is probably an overkill Only probably? You mean, it's a matter of opinion? Well, look, if I want your opinion, I will give it to you. Your use of profanity is unnecessary, try and use more acceptable language. Godamn, bitch, *******, crud, crap, turd, ****, dingleberry, ****, piddle, leak, mung, cheese, laying some cable, dropping a load, ass, booty, hiney, tokhes, bum, buns, rump, cheeks, tits, jugs, bazooms, knockers, knobs, lungs, balloons, brown eyes, balls, nuts, onions, jewels, rocks, stones, ballbag, jism, come, shoot, cream, wad, juice, peckertracks, pearl neckla ce, crabs, dose, syph, clap, gleet, raincoat, scumbag, rubber, gasket, french, tickler, dildo, ****, screw, lay, diddle, push, plow, hump, cut, bang, poke, batter, wham, beef injection, vitamin F, knock-up, putout, dipyourwick, hide the salami, quickie, nooner, matinee, pop your cookies, bust your nuts, get your rocks off, bananas & cream, piece of ass, nookie, poontang, ****, cooz, cooch, crack, gash, notch, ****, slash, ginch, hole, hatch, slit, snatch, quim, bob, snapper, beaver, tail, pussy, muff, bearded clam, furburger, tuna taco, bush, hair pie, wooley booger, glory hole, merkin, mucket, button, clit, cherry, clamp, snappin' pussy, taint, boy in the boat, man in the canoe, mutt rag, on the rag, flying the flag, riding the cotton pony, having the painters in, hard-on, rod-on, bone-on, boner, stiff, **** hard, wet dream, hot nuts, horny, randy, blue balls, lovers nuts, **** struck, queefer, pussy fart, asshole, bunghole, little brown eyeball, bugger, brown, ream, cornhole, butt****, backdoor, bite the brown, sugar bowl pie, mustard road, up the old dirt road, hershey highway, fudge packer, pound cake, finger ****, dry hump, cop a feel, tit ****, french ****, one man band, hand job, french job, blow job, head job, rim job, hum job, pipe job, suckoff, give head, give face, gobble, cop a stem, cop a doodle, go down on, muff dive, moustache ride, sit on one's face, yodeling in the gulley, sixtynine, seventy-one, sixty-eight, golden showers, around the world, daisy chain, sloppy seconds, dog style, mongolian cluster ****, group grope, gang bang, circle jerk, well hung, dick, prick, dork, dong, tong, doniker, dingus, wang, schlong, schwanz, schmuck, putz, pork, pecker, peter, prong, tool, rod, hammer, shaft, stick, snake, knob, lob, stem, root, joint, piece, gun, meat, beef, pork, weenie, skin flute, meat whistle, talleywacker, middle leg, short arm, rod of love, joy stick, love muscle, dingdong, tube steak, pink pencil, bald headded mouse, trouser snake, one eyed monster, one eyed wonder worm, jelly roll, puddin', jerkoff, jackoff, whackoff, pulloff, beatoff, fist ****, wanking, beating your meat, flogging your dong, pounding your pud, bleeding your weed, stroking it, giving it a tug, beating the bishop, jerk the gherkin, shootin' putty at the moon, pocket pool, pimp, hooker, trick, queer, queen, punk, faggot, quiff, dyke, diesel dyke, lezzie, bulldagger, box lunch, seafood, rough trade, eat me, **** you, up your ass, **** off, **** off,**** on you, stick it, stuff it, shove it, ram it, jam it, cram it, sit on it, get laid, get in, get off, get it on, get it up, mother ****er, cock sucker, old fart, fart face, fart sniffer, cocksman, scatfan, asshole, eckerhead, scumbag, **** up, **** off, ball breaker, ball buster, a real ****er, cock teaser, ****slapper, ass kisser, brown nose, ****arse, **** heel, douchebag, motherstrapalonian, **** trophy, **** nugget, fleshloaf, **** dropping, walking sperm, infestation, anklebiter, booger-eater, bratzilla, crib lizard, crotchcricket, crotchfruit, crumbcruncher, crumb grinder, fartling, floormonster, goldensprog, hell spawn, kinderwhore, nipplecrunchers, nose miner, pussfruit, **** factory, sperm 'n egg omlette, sproglodyte, snotmonster. |
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netnews.insightbb.com wrote:
Hey all, I built my last computer around the time XP came out. Now, almost 2 years later, I'm thinking about upgrading the cpu and motherboard. My questions is about the windows activation. This upgrade will more than likely cause it all kinds of fits. Has anyone been down this road and did you have to contact MS about it? How difficult was it? Thanks, Bryan You will have no problem with activation and for a step by step on changing your XP systems motherboard click on the link below. If using the web based newsgroups copy and paste the link into your web browser address bar. http://michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html -- Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP http://michaelstevenstech.com |
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"Sir_George" wrote in message ... Kadaitcha Man, Misinformation has never helped anyone. So, the fact that your advice is probably an overkill was my point. Generally hardware upgrades don't cause problems so severe that you need to format the drive. Generally hardware upgrades don't require a re-install but replacing the motherboard isn't a general hardware upgrade. Absolutly everything inside your computer is connected to the motherboard when you replace it everything will be confused about its IRQ setting amongst other things. This is also taking into account that the IDE drivers work with the new motherborad. A reinstall is the only way to go when replacing the motherborad, if your computer does happen to boot first time without reinstalling you will be lucky but it will also be almost unusable. The only way to go is a reinstall. And at least if he follows our advice he will be prepared for this and backup his data. To say that it done'st like you have he might assume it is an easy upgrade and lose everything. Fox |
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Greetings --
Normally, unless the new motherboard is virtually identical to the old one (same chipset, IDE controllers, etc), you'll need to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the very least: How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/directo...;EN-US;Q315341 This may also require re-activation. If it's been more than 120 days since you last activated that specific Product Key, you'll most likely be able to activate via the Internet without problem. If it's been less, you might have to make a 5 minute phone call. Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ---- You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. -- RAH "netnews.insightbb.com" wrote in message news:raHqa.632606$3D1.349372@sccrnsc01... Hey all, I built my last computer around the time XP came out. Now, almost 2 years later, I'm thinking about upgrading the cpu and motherboard. My questions is about the windows activation. This upgrade will more than likely cause it all kinds of fits. Has anyone been down this road and did you have to contact MS about it? How difficult was it? Thanks, Bryan |
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