I can confirm...

[DR]

That if you change your

PSU
Graphics Card
Memory
Motherboard

But keep your HDD and CPU

Then you have to re-activate vista

[dave87]

I'm not sure if they can count PSU, but if you change all the others then yea

Memory is a wierd one, its only if you go above certain set boundaries, ie 1.5-2gb would be fine, but 1gb to 2gb can get you reactivating

Dave

edit - have you updated the My System bit?

[Jonny]

You changed those things already?

Gosh.

So you don't need to re-install, just re-activate?

[Dav0s]

is this retail only?

[Clunk]

How about just one item at a time, does it catch each one?

[FInalD]

How about just one item at a time, does it catch each one?

Well XP does, so I would guess that Vista does aswell.

I know XP also picks up stupid things and makes you re-activate your PC...I updated my graphics driver and XP said I'd made a significant change and had to re-activate...this meant I had to phone up MS to get them to give me a code as I have OEM XP Home.

FinalD

[Clunk]

Well XP does, so I would guess that Vista does aswell.

I know XP also picks up stupid things and makes you re-activate your PC...I updated my graphics driver and XP said I'd made a significant change and had to re-activate...this meant I had to phone up MS to get them to give me a code as I have OEM XP Home.

FinalD

Never have I had to reactivate when Ive changed ram or cpu with XP. Saying that, I have had to reactivate several times when updating the chipset drivers on this P5B.

Edit: Ive changed the graphics card loads of times and that has never triggered it for me.

[FInalD]

It was strange, I didn't change the card, just the drivers, updated them, and, well Windows is annoying

FinalD

[DR]

Well - I didnt want to do it bit by bit

System is now upgraded and "reasonable - QX6700 @ 3.3GHz" not enough... but well getting there

[Clunk]

Very reasonable indeed

[DR]

Room for improvement

[Clunk]

Whats holding you back then? ram? cooling? underwear?

[DR]

Cooling I think

The ram isn't overclocked yet - since the Intel board doesn't allow it - I might move to 680i thing is for CPU overclocks this board is the best

680i gives me SLI but I won't run that

[CrazyMonkey]

Its the underwear ive got the same problem here...

[DR]

[Agent]

Get some water in there sunny jim