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Elliot Mackenzie
I am setting up a Windows XP Media Center machine and want to pre-empt
activation problems before I get myself caught out swapping out hardware.
By "setting up", I mean I have been attempting to set up an MCE machine
in my spare time and have been experimenting with different hardware
arrangements on and off for the past couple of months in an attempt to
find something that works well. There is only one "machine" involved
though it seems to have "evolved" a couple of times during my experiments.
The machine was activated in the first instance, and then re-activated
again (by telephone) when I swapped out the original hardware for a more
suitably powered motherboard/cpu. I've been having problems with RAM
recently and it now looks like the motherboard is also having issues
(machine hangs two or three times a week). When I swap out the
motherboard I just *know* I will need to reactivate (the network
interface is on-board etc). I also plan to do a bit more stuffing
around and changing the hardware (adding 7.1 surround and changing out
the video card etc) over the next couple of months...
My question after all this is: "for how long can I keep doing this?".
Obviously I'm just stuffing around with hardware and will continue to do
this for months, but can I just keep re-activating by telephone ad
infinitum or is Microsoft likely to start kicking up a fuss and
eventually say no?
Kind regards,
Elliot.
activation problems before I get myself caught out swapping out hardware.
By "setting up", I mean I have been attempting to set up an MCE machine
in my spare time and have been experimenting with different hardware
arrangements on and off for the past couple of months in an attempt to
find something that works well. There is only one "machine" involved
though it seems to have "evolved" a couple of times during my experiments.
The machine was activated in the first instance, and then re-activated
again (by telephone) when I swapped out the original hardware for a more
suitably powered motherboard/cpu. I've been having problems with RAM
recently and it now looks like the motherboard is also having issues
(machine hangs two or three times a week). When I swap out the
motherboard I just *know* I will need to reactivate (the network
interface is on-board etc). I also plan to do a bit more stuffing
around and changing the hardware (adding 7.1 surround and changing out
the video card etc) over the next couple of months...
My question after all this is: "for how long can I keep doing this?".
Obviously I'm just stuffing around with hardware and will continue to do
this for months, but can I just keep re-activating by telephone ad
infinitum or is Microsoft likely to start kicking up a fuss and
eventually say no?
Kind regards,
Elliot.