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Going to be upgrading mobo and video card?

Author:  Silent Avenger [ Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Going to be upgrading mobo and video card?

Well I'm going to be upgrading my motherboard and video card. I keep hearing mixed stories about how people have to phone MS and get their windows copy to be reactivated. I'm running a win xp media center system with an OEM copy of windows. I just want to know if there will be reactivation issues with windows or not. Also please don't say "use Linux" because I don't want to use it and besides this is a family computer and the rest of my family are more familiar with windows and it's programs.

Author:  BigBear [ Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:10 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:Going to be upgrading mobo and video card?

You only have to reactivate if you change a lot. You should be fine.

Author:  andrew. [ Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:12 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:Going to be upgrading mobo and video card?

You only have to call MS if you've activated your license of XP a lot of times in a short amount of time. If you haven't reinstalled lately, you should be fine.


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