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| Thread ID: 35637 | 2003-07-18 01:02:00 | XP OEM Licencing | nicnz (2273) | Press F1 |
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| 160702 | 2003-07-18 01:02:00 | I saw a post recently about what can be done to a computer that has OEM products on it, someone was having problems getting the PC company to restore Windows XP once they put in a new Hard Drive. The PC Company should be classed as a System Builder, since the build PCs and buy bulk licences. So to clear things up - this is from Microsoft's legal dept: "An end user can upgrade all of the components on their computer system, with the exception of the motherboard, and maintain the original OEM System Builder Licenses. Thus, if the hard drive fails, the original OEM System Builder Licenses may be installed on a new/replacement hard drive as long as it is first removed from the old hard drive." |
nicnz (2273) | ||
| 160703 | 2003-07-18 02:05:00 | nice :) only think is in the recent post about this the person had modded the motherboard (flash the bios with a non-pcCO bios) to make it accept the new hardrive which in turn ment he could not use his restore disk. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 160704 | 2003-07-18 02:47:00 | In other words, it's not the "same" motherboard, because the identifying code isn't there. In an ideal world, a new BIOS would still be OK, but this isn't an ideal world. The real-world difficulties involved would be very nasty. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 160705 | 2003-07-18 03:06:00 | So what happens if the motherboard blows up, like if it struck by lightning (happened to me) or otherwise dies? What happens if you decide to build up a new computer and sell the old one without any OS? It all seems very messy and nonsensical to me, just encouraging the cough cough copies of XP rather than the reverse. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 160706 | 2003-07-18 03:12:00 | Yea well that's just M$ putting things in place so that they can completley control your PC. Just wait it will happen. I realise that at the moment this type of action will only encourage pirating, but as soon as M$ gains a little more control then it will probably be a quite effective measure against piracy. |
promethius (1998) | ||
| 160707 | 2003-07-18 03:12:00 | sorry *quite an effective... | promethius (1998) | ||
| 160708 | 2003-07-18 07:33:00 | Perhaps someone can tell me what will happen in my situation? I puchased WinXP PRO upgrade version to use on my HP computer. Shortly I want to format my HP pc & return it to original Win ME using the recovery software supplied by HP so I can sell it. I'm intending to install my Win XP pro upgrade on the new PC I'm going to build shortly & I have a legal version of Win98 to use as the qualifier for Win XP upgrade. The big question is what sort of probs am I going to run into & can I legaly do what I am intending? Will I have to give Bill a ring & explain the situation? cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 160709 | 2003-07-18 07:57:00 | Sounds to me as if your situation will be fine Steve. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 160710 | 2003-07-18 08:16:00 | As I stated in that thread previously I have updated BIOS's on other OEM PC's (Compaq, HP, Acer, Artec, Dell, the list goes on!) and the recovery CD has still worked so why can't the PC Co do the same??? | caffy (2665) | ||
| 160711 | 2003-07-18 08:17:00 | Oops! Using my sisters PC and not my name!! I posted previously un CYaBro |
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