On Thursday, September 15, 2005 @ 8:03 AM, James Knott wrote:
Sunny wrote:
On 9/14/05, Carl Hartung <suselinux@cehartung.com> wrote:
tech support forum, either. When I read his post I concluded that his was an XP problem: the hardware profile will no longer match the signature that is embedded in XP if he just backs everything up, replaces the *system* drive and restores from the backup. XP will think it's been pirated. He's better
XP allows 3 minor changes before it requires reactivation, and I had luck with replacing a hard drive.
Apparently, adding memory is not considered a minor change. A while ago, I added some memory to a friend's notebook. That was enough to require reactivation.
I added memory to my XP machine about 2 years ago. I didn't have any authorization issue. The only thing that happened is I got a pop-up when I booted the first time that said something like "Memory has changed!". Greg Wallace