Motherboard W/ Windows XP

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I replaced my old motherboard with a new one, and my
Windows XP is about to crash. Systemax says, since i
replace my motherboard with a different one, other then
Systemax's motherboard, my recovery Disk will not work
on my new motherboard, and that i would have to buy
Windows XP. I was wondering if there was anything
Microsoft could do, are would i have to buy another copy
of Windows XP?
 
Unless you replace your motherboard with an identical
model motherboard, you cannot use a Systemax Restore CD.
You'll have to purchase a conventional "full version" of Windows XP.

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| I replaced my old motherboard with a new one, and my
| Windows XP is about to crash. Systemax says, since i
| replace my motherboard with a different one, other then
| Systemax's motherboard, my recovery Disk will not work
| on my new motherboard, and that i would have to buy
| Windows XP. I was wondering if there was anything
| Microsoft could do, are would i have to buy another copy
| of Windows XP?
 
JB said:
I replaced my old motherboard with a new one, and my
Windows XP is about to crash. Systemax says, since i
replace my motherboard with a different one, other then
Systemax's motherboard, my recovery Disk will not work
on my new motherboard, and that i would have to buy
Windows XP.
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It will certainly lose the BIOS lock to the motherboard: that would
mean it then had to be activated in the same way as a retail copy. But
other than that (which I would think would go through OK) I would not
expect them to have a motherboard so proprietary that the system would
not work.

OEM copies of windows such as that are provided on a license solely to
the first machine they are installed on. Just how much change is needed
before it ceases to be the same one is ill-defined

Answer really is to try and see: if it works, fine - if you have to go
buy a new copy you will at least know it was necessary.
 
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