Reinstalling Generic OEM XP Home on new motherboard, activation ok

[Guest]

I'm looking to upgrade my machine from an old Pentium 4 chipset to a
relatively modern AMD AM2 board. I'm also upgrading to a PCIe video card.
Aside from what was mentioned, everything else remains the same.

I have a generic OEM (xxxxx-OEM-xxxxxxx-xxxxx) XP Home CD that was purchased
from Newegg in summer of 2005. I've verified this is not one of those "SLP
BIOS-Locked" versions of XP. I already know about the various styles of
matching XP to the new motherboard via an upgrade-in-place or changing the
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller to "standard dual IDE controller" before rebooting
and replacing.

The EULA is very vague on this portion:
The term "COMPUTER" as used herein shall mean the HARDWARE, if
the HARDWARE is a single computer system, or shall mean the
computer system with which the HARDWARE operates, if the
HARDWARE is a computer system component.

It's still the same single computer system. Same hard drives, same CD/DVD
drives, same mouse and keyboard and NIC and dialup modem. Same case and
lights too! Will I be able to reactivate after this upgrade?

 

[DL]

In theory its a breach of licence, but if you have to use phone method to
reactivate, state that you replaced a failed mothorboard

 

[peter]

I just build a new system and used an OEM Retail version of XP which I had
previously installed on the old system.
After wiping it off the old I installed onto the new system without
problems...no phone call instant activation.
I think that old 3 month rule works no matter what version you have.....if
you have not had to reactivate in the past 3 months it will activate as if
it was a brand new activation.
peter