new motherboard & win/home xp OEM

[shamus21]

hi lads
Have any of you windows xp (OEM) users been down this road.
have a OEM of windows XP on my machine looking to upgrade the mother board.
Am i going to have any problems reinstalling the OEM XP or is this one upgrade to far that the OEM copys don`t support. or is it possible to blag the microsoft telephone reg line. Any help please.

[Jiff Lemon]

Won't happen - You'd have to buy another copy of Xp I'm afraid.
The only system's I put OEM on are Shuttles, cos the likelyhood of changing a motherboard is slim.

[BUFF]

You may have to re-activate it but you should be able to do that.

"If you overhaul your computer by replacing a substantial number of hardware components, it may appear to be a different PC. You may have to reactivate Windows XP. If this should occur, you can call the telephone number displayed on the activation screen to reactivate the software."

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/h...activation.asp

[skly77]

thanks m8, I have this problem also when I reinstall XP in my PC. I thought it was hardware problem until someone also come similar problem as I have b4.

[Jiff Lemon]

Originally posted by BUFF
You may have to re-activate it but you should be able to do that.

"If you overhaul your computer by replacing a substantial number of hardware components, it may appear to be a different PC. You may have to reactivate Windows XP. If this should occur, you can call the telephone number displayed on the activation screen to reactivate the software."

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/h...activation.asp

Very true for the retail editions. However, you'll find that Microsoft will NOT re-activate an OEM version.

[BUFF]

I've done it with an OEM copy of XP Home, admittedly not with a mobo.
Didn't need to actually speak to anyone.

You can also "reset" XP with a very, very little bit of editing (done that too).
Details available on the net.

[philly]

yes you can do it, i replaced the mobo, also got new ram & cpu for the board did a clean install, log on auto reg no problem but note it was well past the 120 day update reset issue.
Give it a try see what happens and let us no.
Buff give me a Clue.

[joshwa]

if it's not kosher than please don't talk about it on here chaps - thanks