Re: choosing an OS and getting comfy with a new pc

Unfortunately the plethora of software piraters have driven MS and other
manufacturers to these ends.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Handy" <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [PcTech] choosing an OS and getting comfy with a new pc


> Buck,
>
> >I have heard that XP can actually disable itself if you make significant
> >changes to the PC, like adding a big hard drive and changing the CPU.
>
> I had my motherboard and video cards (I run triple monitors) taken out by
an
> electrical storm a couple of weeks ago.  My particular model of
motherboard was
> no longer available so had to upgrade it to a newer version from the same
manf.
>
> XP Pro is touchy about those things, and required a "repair installation"
from
> the XP setup CD in order to install the proper drivers etc.  Then it
mandated a
> new activation code, and didn't even give the usual 30 days grace.  Your
choices
> were to activate now or shut down.  I couldn't activate over the web
because the
> network driver was not installed yet, so I had to call on the phone.
>
> Then Sunday I re-installed some other components I had not yet added back
into
> my system.  It is giving me 3 days to activate again!  I think this will
be the
> fifth activation I've had to do on this machine since moving to XP Pro.
All due
> to hardware changes.
>
> I think the process is too touchy myself...
>
> Doug
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