Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 (WinXP Pro SP3) with: 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) 2. Extra RAM 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) 4. Adding a second hard drive. Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
I added a DVD drive, more RAM, and a second internal drive. This didn't cause a demand for reactivation. Jim "Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in message news:unlp1%23pnKHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 > (WinXP Pro SP3) with: > 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) > 2. Extra RAM > 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) > 4. Adding a second hard drive. > > Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? > > -- > Don Phillipson > Carlsbad Springs > (Ottawa, Canada) > >
"Don Phillipson" wrote: > Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 > (WinXP Pro SP3) with: > 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) > 2. Extra RAM > 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) > 4. Adding a second hard drive. > > Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? > > -- > Don Phillipson > Carlsbad Springs > (Ottawa, Canada) > > Yes, it's likely. But so what? Just reactivate.
On Jan 26, 6:42 pm, "Jim" <j...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > I added a DVD drive, more RAM, and a second internal drive. This didn't > cause a demand for reactivation. > Jim"Don Phillipson" <e...@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in message > > news:unlp1%23pnKHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > > Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 > > (WinXP Pro SP3) with: > > 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) > > 2. Extra RAM > > 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) > > 4. Adding a second hard drive. > > > Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? > > > -- > > Don Phillipson > > Carlsbad Springs > > (Ottawa, Canada) Please note that all hardware changes "tally up" a change counter. Depending on the number of changes, the re-activation "might" pop up when the "allowed" changes "counter" matches the "product activation" limit count flag. I got the "product" reactivation demand on a video card driver update once. Your changes "should" not require a reactivation. BTW: That should be Ottawa, Ontario, Canada!!!
when windows is first installed it takes an inventory of the hardware and creates a "hardware hash" of that computer. the purpose of the hardware hash is basically to keep windows from being pirated. each time windows is booted it double checks the hash to compare with the computers configuration. if the computer matches the hash, then there isn't any problems. ----------- however, there is room for casual upgrading of the hardware. if I recall, out of the ten hardware checks registered in the hash, there is room to change 6 hardware components without problems or reactivation. -- db·´¯`·...¸><)))º> DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - @Hotmail.com - nntp Postologist ~ "share the nirvana" - dbZen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > "Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in message news:unlp1#pnKHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 > (WinXP Pro SP3) with: > 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) > 2. Extra RAM > 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) > 4. Adding a second hard drive. > > Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? > > -- > Don Phillipson > Carlsbad Springs > (Ottawa, Canada) > >
"Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in message news:unlp1%23pnKHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 > (WinXP Pro SP3) with: > 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) > 2. Extra RAM > 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) > 4. Adding a second hard drive. > > Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? > > -- > Don Phillipson > Carlsbad Springs > (Ottawa, Canada) > > Those changes shouldn't trigger a reactivation. The one item that can trigger a reactivation is a new motherboard. I don't think that PCI cards are in the activation hardware hash.
In article <unlp1#pnKHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, e925 @SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca says... > > Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 > (WinXP Pro SP3) with: > 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) > 2. Extra RAM > 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) > 4. Adding a second hard drive. > > Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? There is no way to actually answer your question as activation is based on a factor of many counts for different hardware. Since Activation is painless, even if you have to call, why are you worried? -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free@rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
"Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote > Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? Hard to say. I added a second HD once and it demanded reactivation.
"db" <databaseben@hotmail.com> wrote > the purpose of the hardware hash is basically > to keep windows from being pirated. And it works so well!
"Leythos" <spam999free@rrohio.com> wrote > Since Activation is painless, even if you have to call, why are you > worried? Do you consider being interrogated by a Microsoft employee painless? It happened to me when I added a new HD for backup. Got a demand to reactivate, then the employee wanted to know why I was activating again, and what I did to cause it. Microsoft Australia.
"Ian D" <taurus@nowhereatall.com> écrivait news:uanb1OsnKHA.1552 @TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl: > > "Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in message > news:unlp1%23pnKHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 >> (WinXP Pro SP3) with: >> 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) >> 2. Extra RAM >> 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) >> 4. Adding a second hard drive. >> >> Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? >> >> -- >> Don Phillipson >> Carlsbad Springs >> (Ottawa, Canada) >> >> > > Those changes shouldn't trigger a reactivation. The > one item that can trigger a reactivation is a new > motherboard. I don't think that PCI cards are in the > activation hardware hash. > > I know someone whose PC BIOS lost its configuration and that reenabled a built-in unused (and disabled) ATA133 controller. On the next boot, Windows asked to reactivate.
a wrote: > "Leythos" <spam999free@rrohio.com> wrote > >> Since Activation is painless, even if you have to call, why are you >> worried? > > Do you consider being interrogated by a Microsoft employee painless? > It happened to me when I added a new HD for backup. Got a demand to > reactivate, then the employee wanted to know why I was activating > again, and what I did to cause it. Microsoft Australia. This to you is interrogation? How long was this particular exchange?
In article <uanb1OsnKHA.1552@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, taurus@nowhereatall.com says... > > "Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in message > news:unlp1%23pnKHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 > > (WinXP Pro SP3) with: > > 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) > > 2. Extra RAM > > 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) > > 4. Adding a second hard drive. > > > > Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? > > > > -- > > Don Phillipson > > Carlsbad Springs > > (Ottawa, Canada) > > > > > > Those changes shouldn't trigger a reactivation. The > one item that can trigger a reactivation is a new > motherboard. I don't think that PCI cards are in the > activation hardware hash. Yes the PCI card is part of the activation process. In fact, on my older mb without a builtin ethernet, I had relocated the nic to another slot & it triggered the demand for activation. There was no other change/addition/deletion of hardware. If the mb has ethernet, then the adding of a nic won't demand an activation as m$ was inventoring the mb lan.
a wrote: > "Leythos" <spam999free@rrohio.com> wrote > >> Since Activation is painless, even if you have to call, why are you >> worried? > > Do you consider being interrogated by a Microsoft employee painless? > It happened to me when I added a new HD for backup. Got a demand to > reactivate, then the employee wanted to know why I was activating > again, and what I did to cause it. Microsoft Australia. > > Your account of the "interrogation" sounds pretty painless to me. We found the Australians extremely friendly on our last visit Down Under. <g> Bill
In news:unlp1%23pnKHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl, Don Phillipson <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> typed: > Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 > (WinXP Pro SP3) with: > 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) > 2. Extra RAM > 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) > 4. Adding a second hard drive. > > Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? Maybe ... maybe not. Depends. But who cares as long as it's not a pirated copy? HTH, Twayne
In article <4b600dc9$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, b@invalid.com says... > > "Leythos" <spam999free@rrohio.com> wrote > > > Since Activation is painless, even if you have to call, why are you > > worried? > > Do you consider being interrogated by a Microsoft employee painless? > It happened to me when I added a new HD for backup. Got a demand to > reactivate, then the employee wanted to know why I was activating > again, and what I did to cause it. Microsoft Australia. Do you consider trolling in every one of your posts? Activation works painlessly over the internet and with little pain over the phone. Having "activated" thousands of machines I have never had any "pain" in doing it, the PAIN is normally something that anti-MS trolls post about. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. spam999free@rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)
"Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in news:unlp1#pnKHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: > Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 > (WinXP Pro SP3) with: > 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) > 2. Extra RAM > 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) > 4. Adding a second hard drive. > > Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? > Microsoft explains it all here: "Technical Details on Microsoft Product Activation for Windows XP" <http/technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457054.aspx> HTH, John
I had to reinstall XP yesterday and was asked to reactivate and there`s been no hardware changes to this machine. "Twayne" <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote in message newsVO0lm4nKHA.5524@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > In news:unlp1%23pnKHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl, > Don Phillipson <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> typed: >> Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 >> (WinXP Pro SP3) with: >> 1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) >> 2. Extra RAM >> 3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) >> 4. Adding a second hard drive. >> >> Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? > > Maybe ... maybe not. Depends. But who cares as long as it's not a pirated > copy? > > HTH, > > Twayne > >
Mark Adams wrote: > <>Yes, it's likely. But so what? Just reactivate. sometimes it is not possible especially if you have used cracks to activate first time round and now you can't find it!!! That is why the question in the first place!!!
Don Phillipson wrote: >Am planning to pep up antique Compaq Presario 7000 >(WinXP Pro SP3) with: >1. New DVD drive (replacing OEM) >2. Extra RAM >3. USB v.2 card to replace Bluetooth (unused) >4. Adding a second hard drive. > >Is this likely to trigger an OS demand for reactivation? > > > Most probably not.. hth