Re: Permanently transferring XP Home from one PC to another

"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 24/04/2007 in message
<462e6d4c$0$8757$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Martin Underwood
wrote:

So if I buy an OEM copy of XP (as I did) it's only valid on the first
machine that I happen to install it on?

That's what the MS licence says. You can often get 'phone activation if
you say the original mobo was defective and has been replaced, no
guarantees though :-)

As it happens, I was able to activate in the normal automatic way: I tried
it on the off-chance, and it worked, so evidently at least 180 days has
elapsed since I activated it on the old PC. Now I need to make sure I
remember wipe the disk on the old PC to stay legal!

The new PC is working fine now - ever since I replaced the LAN card with
another one (the one out of the PC that I've just taken XP off). I think the
same fault that was preventing the card get an IP address was also
responsible for the intermittent hangs. Certainly the PC has rebooted
perfectly each and every time as I've been installing the XP and AVG
updates.

I like it when I can build a PC out of spare parts - I must have Womble
blood in me!

I still need to transplant everything into a different case becase this PC
has one of those stupid U-shaped cases where the top and both sides are all
one piece of metal. They are a right pain when you have to keep removing and
replacing them, whereas a case with a single side panel that slides off is
much easier.


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