Re: Want to upgrade my mobo, ram and graphic's card, OEM XP Pro, issues ??

Allan wrote:

"A_Newsreader" <a_newsreader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1190294856.041825.162880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi there,

I'm VERY new to XP having clung to Windows 2000 for long enough !

Installed XP Pro onto my machine (wiped off W2k), liked what I saw and
activated the software via the internet.

I still have the XP Pro disk, CD Key etc - this copy is legal (bought
off Ebay).

Now however I've noticed that a Mobo that I'd been eyeing up for the
last year has become VERY cheap on Ebay and it's something really
worth doing.

It'd mean upgrading my Ram, with the ultimate aim of upgrading my
Graphics Card.

I intend using the 2 Xeon processors I have as well as keeping all the
hard disks, sound cards etc.

Please can someone tell me, as I have an OEM version of this OS, will
Microsoft not allow me to do a reinstall of this same OS Disk and CD
Key ?? Will I have to buy another copy of this OS if I am proposing
to do the above ??

Please, can someone put me in the picture ??

Many thanks,

After reading the other posts here I agree the most with Mr. Chambers.


Thank you.


You purchased an OS for your computer and want to upgrade the MOBO now. I consider that this falls well within the concept of "fair use" of intellectual property which has been upheld by the Supreme Court.


'"Fair use" ... upheld by the Supreme Court.' isn't even relevant to the subject at hand, however. "Fair Use" is a very narrowly defined concept that simply doesn't apply:

TITLE 17 , CHAPTER 1 , Sec. 107.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html

U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html



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