Several Licensing Registration Red Flags?

[Jim]

Recently I loaded WinXP on an old Athlon 600 machine. I went through the
registration process on line. Shortly afterward, I replaced the video card
and removed a dead CDROM and installed a DVD ROM.

I booted up and got the message "the hardware has changed please register
again". I registered again on the phone with a live MSFT tech person.

Now, I want to remove the motherboard and processor and upgrade again to an
Athlon 2500+. In fact I may be upgrading continuously for the next few weeks
with a TV card and other stuff.

I am sure the same message "the hardware has changed please register again"
will pop up at each hardware change. I will have to regester all over again
more than once.

Is numerous registrations going to raise red flags at Microsoft?? How should
I approach hardware upgrades?

 

[David Robbins]

Recently I loaded WinXP on an old Athlon 600 machine. I went through the
registration process on line. Shortly afterward, I replaced the video card
and removed a dead CDROM and installed a DVD ROM.

I booted up and got the message "the hardware has changed please register
again". I registered again on the phone with a live MSFT tech person.

Now, I want to remove the motherboard and processor and upgrade again to an
Athlon 2500+. In fact I may be upgrading continuously for the next few weeks
with a TV card and other stuff.

I am sure the same message "the hardware has changed please register again"
will pop up at each hardware change. I will have to regester all over again
more than once.

Is numerous registrations going to raise red flags at Microsoft?? How should
I approach hardware upgrades?

'register' or 'activate'??? registration is a voluntary thing, i don't know
that it is triggered by hardware changes or not. activation can be
triggered if the os detects that some number of hardware changes that make
it think it may be on a new machine... i'm not sure how much of a change or
over what time period it senses this, but simple swapping of video cards,
adding a new hard drive, or replacing a cdrom (one at a time) doesn't
trigger it, maybe doing all of them at once would. when doing upgrades i
always recommend doing them one at a time anyway, just in case something
goes wrong you know which one you did last and can more easily undo it.

 

[Willit]

You probably will have to activate again, but's that's
your business and theirs to activate you everyday if you
want. call'em and learn their names.

Call (800) 426-9400, and explain the situation.

 

[Ken Blake]

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Now, I want to remove the motherboard and processor and upgrade again
to an Athlon 2500+. In fact I may be upgrading continuously for the
next few weeks with a TV card and other stuff.

I am sure the same message "the hardware has changed please register
again" will pop up at each hardware change. I will have to regester
all over again more than once.

Is numerous registrations going to raise red flags at Microsoft?? How
should I approach hardware upgrades?

First of all you mean "activate," not "register." Unlike
activation, registration is completely optional.

You don't necessarily have to reactivate every time you make a
single hardware change; when you make enough changes you'll be
prompted to reactivate.

They might get suspicious if you activate every day or two, but
if you have to do that, you're within your rights making hardware
changes. I would be firm and explain exactly what's going on.

 

[kurttrail]

Willit wrote:

call'em and learn their names.

Now that's effin' funny!

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[Gary Davis]

Well you have 30 days to activate.
You can spend 28 days making changes then activate on the 29th.

 

[Jim]

No that's not true. The last time I made hardware changes, I was told I had
3 days to activate.

 

[Willit]

lol.....yeah, put them on the speed dialer. I used to get
all kinds of unsolicited calls till I started asking what
color panties they were wearing.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Recently I loaded WinXP on an old Athlon 600 machine. I went through the
registration process on line. Shortly afterward, I replaced the video card
and removed a dead CDROM and installed a DVD ROM.

I booted up and got the message "the hardware has changed please register
again". I registered again on the phone with a live MSFT tech person.

Now, I want to remove the motherboard and processor and upgrade again to an
Athlon 2500+. In fact I may be upgrading continuously for the next few weeks
with a TV card and other stuff.

I am sure the same message "the hardware has changed please register again"
will pop up at each hardware change. I will have to regester all over again
more than once.

Its Activate - not 'register, which is of yourself as the owner and does
not need doing at all.

The reactivation you did will have made a new start point, and you would
need to build up a number of changes before triggering it again. But
this is getting to sound like a complete rebuild and it might be more
sensible anyway to collect together all the things you want for the
final setup and change the whole thing in one with a new clean install.

The 'other stuff' I would not know, but a TV card, or sound card or
modem or anything connected via USB will not enter into the matter. So
it is quite possible that if you do a repair reinstall as soon as the
motherboard is in, you would manage to fit into the limits for being
seen as the same hardware - see www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm for more on
this - and not need a further reactivation anyway

 

[Alex Nichol]

No that's not true. The last time I made hardware changes, I was told I had
3 days to activate.

That depends on if you do a new format and setup (which looks like a new
installation and gives 30 days), or are just changing devices when if
you go OTT it is 3 days if you have SP1, or nothing if you have not