Re: I might have to replace the mother board

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From: Steven Myers (tididit_at_DELETEALLCAPSearthlink.net)
Date: 07/06/04


Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:11:01 GMT

I often replace components in one of my machines. Sometimes XP wants to call
home for validation, and sometimes it doesn't -- and I haven't yet figured
out what makes the difference.
Most recently, I replaced mobo, CPU, and RAM, and XP never made a peep about
it.
I'd suggest that you go for it, and see what happens.

"Ankit Shah" <AnkitShah623@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:OeMfY1yYEHA.996@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wanted to know what I have to do if I have to replace a motherboard and
> CPU, but wanted to keep the hard drive which has my operating system.
Would
> my operating system go crazy if i had added a new components. I have
> windows XP profressional.
>
> Ankit Shah
>
>



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