Alias wrote:
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No mention of a motherboard in the EULA.
Download any drivers that you need that XP doesn't have.
No reason for that.
Where's number 3?
Typo.
I think I my have been thinking of 4 as "All of the above."
Swapping out a motherboard should be a simple process. Windows does
re-install new drivers very well -- it is called "Plug & Play." BIOSs
and OSs are all pretty good at it, in my experience.
Maybe, perhaps, that, for my case at least, it was a fluke that XP
locked me out of when I moved it to a new system.
At least a few said that move XP to a new system is some sort of moral
injustice that deprive Microsoft of something and is a violation of the
EULA.
At least a few have implied that in order to upgrade to a new
motherboard one has to purchase an other copy of Windows.
At least a few had said that moving XP to a new system is of course not
going to work and that the required step was a "Repair Install," as if
that was the only way to do it.
At least a few have said that moving XP to a new system is not that same
as replacing the motherboard -- not exactly, but it can be if I had also
moved over the Video Card, all Drives, etc.
Possibly effected by my polemical way of posting my "complaint," at
least a few proceeded to attempt to insult me -- I of course, being a
passive aggressive type, responded in kind.
The amount of misinformation posted here as gospel or the one and only
truth simply amazes me. Not to say that some people just make mistakes
-- I do and did, of course, when I mentioned the scenario of Dell
replacing a motherboard and not having to re-activate is probably just
that Dell has an OEM version of XP or something. Maybe there are others,
I don't know.
Hey, I can be dumb sometimes. And arrogant. But I wonder how many are
still laughing out loud. (Ask me if I care.)
(This is a long winded post and people might want to just move on at
this point.)
Too many people have implied that XP is some sort of perfect OS, without
flaws, without problems, and that if anything goes wrong it must be the
Users fault. What can one say to that? Other than, *that crap pisses me
off.*
XP's re-activation code is flawed if it kicks in unnecessarily. Although
if one simply has to click the mouse a few times to do so then it is not
so bad -- just annoying. But if it fails and one has to "Repair Install"
then it is by definition a design flaw if not just a bug. And only
allowing three days in which to do so is a pretty rotten thing to do.
Yeah, yeah, there's piracy 'n all. Yeah, well, this "drone" ain't gonna
cry if Microsoft did not make an extra $99.00 this month because the kid
next door managed to get ahold of a bootleg copy of XP. I certainly
would not bombard him with insults even if this is Usenet. I have more
respect for a kid with perhaps not much money who is trying to get an
old system to work any way he can than any amount of non-arrogant MS MVPs.
And speaking of MS MVPs, I think that the few here who simply lurk all
day long and respond to newbie questions simply with "copy & pastes"
from Microsoft KBs are doing everyone, and mostly themselves, a disservice.
Cheers.
Mr. Frazzlebottom, The Polemic.
