On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:25:00 -0700, Christopher
Unfortunantely, with Windows Vista if there is a hardware change, usually as
a HD, RAM, Bios, etc... Windows will want you to active the product again.
What appears to have changed - and no-one's pinned this down as yet -
is the number of things that change before your OS vandor hatches the
DoS payload. Vista's supposed to use the same criteria as XP, yet I
frequently see cases where Vista is more trigger happy.
NB; there are there activation models...
- no activation (VLK)
- BIOS-locked activation, used by big OEMs
- component-monitored activation, used by the rest
....and I'm referring only to the last of these.
As you say, OK
Not so. Lives lost, would be:
- HD, if the 320G was removed
- volume serial number, only if partition wsn't transferred as-is
- IDE controller, only if original controller was removed
That's between 1 and 3 "lives" lost, out of 10. That should not be
enough to trigger the payload, by the rules that applied to XP.
RAM size is one "life" only, so (unless added to 3 lives lost, e.g. as
above) this should NOT trigger the payload. Small shifts in RAM
(e.g.changing the balance between system and onboard graphics) is not
supposed to lose this "life"; 3G to 4G would be expected to.
That's not supposed to be a hardware change, so shouldn't kick over
the component-monitored model. It may or may not kick over the
large-OEM BIOS-locked model, I dunno.
However, a new BIOS may enumerate devices differently, causing them to
appear to have changed, and thus shed comonent "lives". In XP, you
can watch this via Licenturion's XP-Info, but this doesn't work in
Vista. Naturally, as MS is hostile to your attempts to see what is
going on, they provide no tools for you to watch such things.
BTW, I've seen device firmware changes shed "lives", e.g. updating a
CD writer's firmware lost that life, and installing drivers for Intel
graphics (that did an SVGA BIOS flash on the sly) lost that life.
Post back with your mileage.
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