Re: Moving a hard drive w/ a Gateway-installed OEM Windows XP to a new mobo

Who did you work for Tom and what did you do there ?

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Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Moving a hard drive w/ a Gateway-installed OEM Windows
XP to a new mobo

pctech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On 1/23/07, qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How long can you run WinXP without "activation"? I use XP at the
office, but I don't have to maintain it.

Like Rick said, I expected 30 days.  But no such luck; I couldn't login at
all until I reactivated XP.  Don't know if that's specifically an OEM

thing

or what.

(First, apologies to the list for the earlier subject FUBAR.)

This might be the messy part -- a "new" activation could easily be
handled different from attempting re-activation. Of course, it's
possible that "re-activation" happens more often in emergency
situations where you /had/ a working system and needed to replace a
critical, significant component... such as... oh, I don't know... a
MOTHERBOARD???

So, you're working along for months, a mobo gets cracked, you spend
who knows how much time/effort getting things back, and you can't
start the blasted thing back up!

Sure, buy it all new and take your time. But when you need some
quick response, -- "Sorry!"

Am I getting the hang of it?

And I see later comments that discuss CDs tied to manufacturers... 
those make some sense (having worked a couple years for one of those 
manufacturers).

Tom Liotta