Non OEM Motherboard

[Guest]

Is there a way to reactivate Windows XP Home, after installing a non OEM
motherboard (ASUS replacing Gateway) after original failed. Gateway is not
offering any assistance on this.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Actually, Gateway - any OEM - is not required to support any hardware that
wasn't originally installed in your computer, unless Gateway installs it (or
you install it under Gateway's authority.) That's the way the biz works.

But you will have no problem activating XP. You'll need to do a repair
install (re-install Windows over itself), after which you'll see a screen
advising you to activate your copy of Windows. At that point you can either
activate online or by calling the number on your screen.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

If you have a Gateway OEM version of Windows XP
installed, and you installed a non-Gateway motherboard,
your Gateway OEM license is no longer valid. All you
can do is purchase a conventional "Full Version" of
Windows XP and proceed with a "Repair Install".

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

How to Perform a Repair Install of Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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| Is there a way to reactivate Windows XP Home, after installing a non OEM
| motherboard (ASUS replacing Gateway) after original failed. Gateway is not
| offering any assistance on this.

 

[Dave B]

Actually I believe if the motherboard was replaced due to defect, and not as
an upgrade to a functioning motherboard, then the license is still valid,
not 100% on this though.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You would have to replace a defective motherboard
with the exact same model motherboard in order for
a Windows XP OEM license to remain valid.

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| Actually I believe if the motherboard was replaced due to defect, and not as
| an upgrade to a functioning motherboard, then the license is still valid,
| not 100% on this though.

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

Replaced by GATEWAY due to a defect..

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[Bruce Chambers]

Actually I believe if the motherboard was replaced due to defect, and not as
an upgrade to a functioning motherboard, then the license is still valid,
not 100% on this though.

You're correct, but the replacement motherboard would have to come from
the original OEM -- Gateway, in this case.


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[Ron Martell]

Is there a way to reactivate Windows XP Home, after installing a non OEM
motherboard (ASUS replacing Gateway) after original failed. Gateway is not
offering any assistance on this.

If your Windows XP was a BIOS Locked OEM version (and most OEM
versions supplied by major manufacturers have been BIOS locked for
some time now) then your only choices are to replace the motherboard
with one from the same OEM (Gateway) or to purchase a new copy of
Windows XP.

How old is the Gateway system? I assume that it is out of warranty?

Good luck

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