[Tfug] A stupid Windows question that somebody...

[Matthew T. Eskes]

You cant do that since dell has locked XP to that particular motherboard by
BIOS verification. If you try one of two things will happen, you either will
not be able to get the installer to even thinking about installing it or you
will required to enter the licence key and activate it which in turn is
headache because you may have to call ms's non-free tech support line and
wait on hold for a few hours.


Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of Jim
March
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:44 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: [Tfug] A stupid Windows question that somebody...

...will know the answer to :).

I've got a consulting client with a Dell P4, came stock with WinXP,
she's got the CD.  Her motherboard just blew up, and it's pretty much
all-in-one.

Can I shoehorn a new MB in there and expect Windows to still work in
terms of activation/registration?  Sure, I'll have to mess with
drivers for miles, but...what's the odds I can get it to work at all?

Jim

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