Upgrading PC & XP activation

[Mark]

Hi, I'm upgrading my pc, which will include changing the motherboard, CPU,
video card and system memory. The hard drive that currently has an activated
version of XP Home will be reused in the upgraded machine. Will I need to
reinstall XP after the upgrade and if so will there be any issues
reactivating Win XP?

TIA

Mark

 

[purplehaz]

If this is a retail version of xp, then at the very least you should do a
repair install of xp. Activation is no prob.
If it's an oem version of xp, then you can't reinstall it on a new
computer/motherboard, according to the ms eula and the xp version may be
bios locked preventing it from working on another motherboard.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Hi, I'm upgrading my pc, which will include changing the motherboard, CPU,
video card and system memory. The hard drive that currently has an activated
version of XP Home will be reused in the upgraded machine. Will I need to
reinstall XP after the upgrade and if so will there be any issues
reactivating Win XP?

You'll probably need to do a "Repair" install of XP. You may not have
to re-activate at all, if you do it should not be a problem.

The exception is if you're using an OEM version of the system. Those
are licensed only for the first computer they are installed on. You
are changing so many components that you may have trouble convincing
the Powers That Be that its the same computer.

 

[Mark]

The exception is if you're using an OEM version of the system. Those
are licensed only for the first computer they are installed on. You
are changing so many components that you may have trouble convincing
the Powers That Be that its the same computer.

Thanks for your help. It is an OEM version, however it was purchased along
with the hard drive it is still installed on. Will this make any difference
when it has to be reactivated?

 

[atwifa]

no, it shouldn't make a difference. the disk you have doesn't 'know' that
you've installed its files to another computer.

The exception is if you're using an OEM version of the system. Those
are licensed only for the first computer they are installed on. You
are changing so many components that you may have trouble convincing
the Powers That Be that its the same computer.

Thanks for your help. It is an OEM version, however it was purchased along
with the hard drive it is still installed on. Will this make any difference
when it has to be reactivated?

 

[kurttrail]

Thanks for your help. It is an OEM version, however it was purchased
along with the hard drive it is still installed on. Will this make
any difference when it has to be reactivated?

Yes, it may make a difference. If you have to activate by phone, and
you tell the PA phone rep that you changed the mobo, they may deny to
activate your install because MSuses post-EULA policies that makes
changing a mobo a totally different computer. The loophole is, MS has
absolutely no idea what actual hardware you have changed, unless you
tell them.

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[purplehaz]

Thanks for your help. It is an OEM version, however it was purchased along
with the hard drive it is still installed on. Will this make any difference
when it has to be reactivated?

It shouldn't make a difference in activation, unless you have to call MS. If
you have to call and you tell them this was oem and your moving it to
another computer, they may deny activation. According to the eula, an oem
version of xp is not allowed to move to a new computer. It must stay with
the original motherboard/computer that is was first installed on. The drive
you bought it with is not the computer. MS considers the computer your
motherboard. You decide whether you want to follow the eula or not.

 

[Mark]

Is it just me or does anyone else think MS are taking the p**s with this
business of not letting someone who wishes to upgrade their PC reuse the
same version of XP. I know they have to combat piracy and all but surely
this isn't fair. I have already purchased this software, now it seems I have
to get another copy just so I can benefit from a faster machine. No wonder
Bill Gates is one of the richest men on the planet!! I'm dead against
software piracy, in the thinking that all those unlicensed copies out there
is pushing the price way up for all the honest users amongst us, but when MS
pull stunts like this I can begin to understand why people resort to piracy.
Just my thoughts anyway!

Thanks again for all your help!

 

[kurttrail]

Is it just me or does anyone else think MS are taking the p**s with
this business of not letting someone who wishes to upgrade their PC
reuse the same version of XP. I know they have to combat piracy and
all but surely this isn't fair. I have already purchased this
software, now it seems I have to get another copy just so I can
benefit from a faster machine. No wonder Bill Gates is one of the
richest men on the planet!! I'm dead against software piracy, in the
thinking that all those unlicensed copies out there is pushing the
price way up for all the honest users amongst us, but when MS pull
stunts like this I can begin to understand why people resort to
piracy. Just my thoughts anyway!

Thanks again for all your help!

Breaking MS's post-purchase license isn't software piracy, it's just a
contract dispute that MS has no intention of ever enforcing by legal
means, in a court of law. Why? Because MS is too scared to lose,
because no court has ever upheld post-purchase Shrinkwarp usage terms
against any private individual.
MS has no right to know what we do in the privacy of our homes, and no
court is about to give them that right. MS uses their shrinkwrap
license to FUD people into believing that they do have rights in their
home, so that people will buy more copies of MS software than they
really legally need. And now they use PA to FUD even more people out of
the hard-earned money.

Who is really the pirate, MS's paying customers, or MS?

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[Alex Nichol]

Hi, I'm upgrading my pc, which will include changing the motherboard, CPU,
video card and system memory. The hard drive that currently has an activated
version of XP Home will be reused in the upgraded machine. Will I need to
reinstall XP after the upgrade and if so will there be any issues
reactivating Win XP?

See www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

If you have a NIC that has been present all along you might find the
present hardware is acceptable as the same, but more likely not. But if
more than 120 days have passed since you last did the activation, you
will find it will go through on the net just like first time, however
much you have changed. If not, you will have to phone a toll-free
number that will be given, to explain and swap one long number for
another to check back as you type it in. This is not a big hassle
(maybe 5 to 10 minutes) provided you are prepared for it