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

[Jim March]

That's what I thought.  Gawd.

Sigh.

On 10/30/07, Matthew T. Eskes <meskes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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