Activation Problem after new MOBO

[Skee]

I made a custom pc about 2 years ago and installed an OEM version of
XP Professional. Rescently my mobo died and I had to replace it.
When I started it I did a repair install of windows and everything
worked fine and it said I had 3 days to activate windows and when I
clicked activate now the windows activation screen came up but instead
of giving me directions on how to activate it, the screen was a blank
light blue color. When I exited out of it, windows loaded fine. I
restarted and tried again but the same thing happened, so I called
windows. After hours of being on the phone with them and letting them
take control of my pc they restarted the activation counter and now I
cannot even login to windows. They then said that I am going to have
to just do a clean install due to the fact that a week before my mobo
died I installed SP3 which is causing the activation problem. I know
with the OEM version I can only use one mobo, but I was wandering if
there was anyway that I can uninstall the SP3 and repair install so
that I can at least sign into windows? I know I will probably just
have to do a clean install but I was wandering if there was anyway
that I could maybe fix this so that I can move my program settings to
another partition before performing the install? Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any comments.

 

[Andrew E.]

If the xp cd oem was for another MB,youre lucky to have gone as far as
you did,purchase a legitamite copy of xp for youre pc....Otherwise,at pc
start,tap F8 key,select safe mode,enter xp as administrator,edit.