Re-activation on repair?

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If i repair my XP installation because i changed the motherboard....do i have
to activate windows again??

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YES! It is very easy and you can do it each/every time your repair/re-install
XP. However, if the XP is an OEM version, you are not entitled to re-install
XP. OEM versions are tied to the first motherboard that it was installed on
to. There are even OEM versions of XP that will not let you re-install/repair
the installed version if the motherboard is not the original, or same model,
motherboard.
 
Yves said:
YES! It is very easy and you can do it each/every time your repair/re-install
XP. However, if the XP is an OEM version, you are not entitled to re-install
XP. OEM versions are tied to the first motherboard that it was installed on
to. There are even OEM versions of XP that will not let you re-install/repair
the installed version if the motherboard is not the original, or same model,
motherboard.
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False. This may be true of some branded OEM versions but not generic OEM
versions. I have changed the motherboard twice on one computer and once
on another and both computers activated on line without any problems and
I am running generic versions of XP OEM on both.

Alias
 
OK, thanks for the replies to all of you :) was very helpful, fortunatelly i
don´t have an OEM XP version, but it's gonna be interesting to repair a
windows XP installation..i know it sounds weird, but i've never done it
before, so now that i have a better knowledge on the concept, i'll try it on
a computer that has some errors, thank you all

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- Starving to learn
and
Happy to help -

Victor :)
 
VBA said:
If i repair my XP installation because i changed the motherboard....do i have
to activate windows again??
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Probably, but not necessarily. If you replaced the motherboard with an
identical make.model, and have an OEM installation, you may not have to
activate.


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