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s_warmnister
Why does my installing a new Motherboard and processor
entitle MS to another $189 ? Same computer...different
components.
entitle MS to another $189 ? Same computer...different
components.
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Will Denny
Hi
See if the following article helps you:
"Windows Product Activation (WPA) on Windows XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm
See if the following article helps you:
"Windows Product Activation (WPA) on Windows XP"
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm
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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
Normally it doesn't.
If you have retail Windows XP, you can move it to any computer
configuration all you want as long as it is installed more than once.
More details about exactly what is happening will help clarify the
situation.
If you have retail Windows XP, you can move it to any computer
configuration all you want as long as it is installed more than once.
More details about exactly what is happening will help clarify the
situation.
F
Franksta
Depends, as per usual.
If you bought Windows XP Retail, the license can be transfered.
If you bought Windows XP OEM (either with the computer or pre-installed),
then it is tied to the computer that you got it with (check out the EULA for
more indepth options). Basically, it has been relayed to me as:
OEM product has been provided to the OEM at reduced cost to relay onto their
customers and to invest in improving their own support personel (skilling
and training). As it is sold at a reduced cost to the OEM, the software is
then bound to that computer and that computer only. If you change major
components of the computer (i.e. MB or CPU or some other things) then it
isn't the same PC anymore. Therefore it would need new software.
If you bought Windows XP Retail, the license can be transfered.
If you bought Windows XP OEM (either with the computer or pre-installed),
then it is tied to the computer that you got it with (check out the EULA for
more indepth options). Basically, it has been relayed to me as:
OEM product has been provided to the OEM at reduced cost to relay onto their
customers and to invest in improving their own support personel (skilling
and training). As it is sold at a reduced cost to the OEM, the software is
then bound to that computer and that computer only. If you change major
components of the computer (i.e. MB or CPU or some other things) then it
isn't the same PC anymore. Therefore it would need new software.
R
RoseW
Re: Why does my installing a new Motherboard and processor entitle MS to
another $189 ?
There is a list of hardware that Xp looks for when it boots and if a certain
number of the contents has been found to be changed then a phone call or a
web contact is made to re activate the original registration number.
No dollars were involved.
Over the past two years mine had the video card changed, a second hard drive
and when the motherboard + processor was changed this summer Xp found the
motherboard, all files booted and only a web contact was required to re
enter the original number. No fuss, no mess.
I think it was 7 items that were inspected and if three had changed then re
register.
There is a Microsoft reference article detailing this information.
Rose
another $189 ?
There is a list of hardware that Xp looks for when it boots and if a certain
number of the contents has been found to be changed then a phone call or a
web contact is made to re activate the original registration number.
No dollars were involved.
Over the past two years mine had the video card changed, a second hard drive
and when the motherboard + processor was changed this summer Xp found the
motherboard, all files booted and only a web contact was required to re
enter the original number. No fuss, no mess.
I think it was 7 items that were inspected and if three had changed then re
register.
There is a Microsoft reference article detailing this information.
Rose