Re: Activating on New Hardware
From: Tom Porterfield (tpporter_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/02/04
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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:47:31 -0400
P. Qwan wrote:
> I am going to upgrade my PC by replacing the Motherboard and CPU. Hopefully
> I will be able to use my old hard drive and the system will boot off of it.
> My question is, if for some reason it won't boot, and I have to reinstall
> XP, will I be able to activate it on the new hardware? From what I
> understand about activation, it gathers some information from you system to
> identify it.
You will most likely have to do at least a repair install of XP once
booted with the new MB. You will be able to activate XP on the new
hardware. Depending on how long it has been since you activated XP,
activation may happen automatically over the internet. If not, choose
to activate by phone instead, that will work.
You may also be interested in reading the article that Alex Nichol has
written on the subect of wpa - http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm.
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