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re: Question about 'How do I upgrade my motherboard in Windows 2000/XP?'
Sunday, November 23, 2003 at 6:34 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Nelson
(6 messages posted)
The reason you cannot change your motherboard with an exisitng XP OS is becuase XP
takes a snapshot of your hardware when you first installed it....one of those snapshots
is your motherboard ID. This is the reason for activation, if not you would have
the ability to throw the OS on as many different PC's as you pleased. There is a
fix, Call Microsoft and they will allow you a new product key.....if they believe
your old PC(Motherboard) is dead.
And if you think you can just format it an reinstall XP from your CD.....well, it
will install, but activation will not work!
On Saturday, May 10, 2003 at 12:32 am, Chris wrote:
>On all windows operating systems as well as linux you cannot necessarily change
motherboards
>and still use the same OS. In the older versions of windows if you tried this then
>you would get a "Windows Protection Error". If you are able to swap motherboards
>without a problem then it is sheer luck. There is no surefire way of telling when
>you will be able to switch motherboards while using an already install OS. A good
>rule of thumb to assure that your OS will still work is if you are installing a
motherboard
>of the CPU series (ex. MSI Pentium 3 board swapped with MSI Pentium 3 board). When
>you start upgrading or switching from company to company you run into problems.
You
>won't get the "windows protection error" with XP or 2000 but it still won't boot
>up into the OS. You need to to a format and fresh install. That's the only way.
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