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re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)'
Wednesday, March 12, 2003 at 11:17 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mcseadmin
(1 messages posted)
That isn't the case, XP's license agreement allows for up to eight hardware changes
before needing reactivated. I've exchanges MB's in hundreds of pc on me network
and only had registration problems with two machines, but they were quickly resolved
with a call to microsoft. Any time you get memory dumps of page faults, nine times
out of ten, it's a memory problem.
On Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 11:02 am, ckrokit wrote:
>You can't change out a motherboard and expect XP to start and load new drivers needed
>for the board. Those days of doing it like previous versions of Windows are gone.
> XP sees the new MB as being a violation of the Licensing agreement. The new board
>would have to be identical to the old one including the BIOS signature to avoid
this.
> Your only option is to do a repair re/install or a clean install. Check out this
>article: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,11715,00.asp
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