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From: Christopher Muto on 13 Sep 2008 14:48 "S.Lewis" <Gossamer(a)interesting.com> wrote in message news:jkSyk.33614$De7.27819(a)bignews7.bellsouth.net... > > "Daddy" <daddy(a)not.valid.net> wrote in message > news:RfedncnZ9q_vdFbVnZ2dnUVZ_gadnZ2d(a)comcast.com... > Plus - and please correct me if I'm wrong - I believe your Windows > installation is BIOS-locked to a Dell computer. > > Daddy > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > FWIW, not a factor once Windows is already installed on the drive. really? i would think that if the software build found on the dell hard disk did start when installed in the hp it is likely to encounter multiple hardware changes and that would trigger the need to re-activate windows within 30 days. the dell branded windows cd does install on a dell pc without the need to activation, but when that same cd is used on a non-dell machine it does require activation once installed.
From: RnR on 13 Sep 2008 14:57 On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:43:24 -0400, Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_not(a)charter.net> wrote: >Even for the most recently built systems with all the new sparkling chipsets, XP >drivers are available somewhere. The challenge is to find them. Hint: NOT on >the crummy HP web site... Ben Myers > > Once in a great while I've had to find them on the net and it's not too much trouble to find them (mine were not brand new but maybe at the time a year old). I once found them easily but that site wanted me to pay for them so I kept searching till I found them for free elsewhere. Bottom line is they can be found.
From: RnR on 13 Sep 2008 14:59 On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:54:29 -0400, WaIIy <WaIIy@(nft).invalid> wrote: > >I'm curious about something. > >If I took the C drive out of my 8400 - P4 -SATA and put it in place of >the C drive-Core2-SATA on a Hewlett Packard, would it boot? > >For emergency purposes, I wondered if it would boot and I could add the >correct drivers later. > >I do wonder about the different chip. > >Thanks I don't think so because I think it would stop when it didn't recognize some hardware but to be honest I never tried it.
From: Ben Myers on 13 Sep 2008 19:24 Activation is the least of the worries. If the motherboard chipsets are not identical or nearly so (e.g. 945 chipset variants), Windows will blue screen with a stop code of 7B. Somehow Microsoft has embedded chipset specific stuff in the intial bootload such that it cannot be changed easily. I do not know all the technical details, but I marvel at the ease and simplicity with which any major Linux distro adjusts itself automatically to whatever hardware presents itself during bootload. If Linus Torvalds would not be completely co-opted, prostituted and greatly enriched by the experience, I would lobby for him to work for Microsoft on a project to simplify the whole hardware mess inside Windows... Ben Myers On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:48:27 -0400, "Christopher Muto" <muto(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote: >"S.Lewis" <Gossamer(a)interesting.com> wrote in message >news:jkSyk.33614$De7.27819(a)bignews7.bellsouth.net... >> >> "Daddy" <daddy(a)not.valid.net> wrote in message >> news:RfedncnZ9q_vdFbVnZ2dnUVZ_gadnZ2d(a)comcast.com... >> Plus - and please correct me if I'm wrong - I believe your Windows >> installation is BIOS-locked to a Dell computer. >> >> Daddy >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> FWIW, not a factor once Windows is already installed on the drive. > >really? i would think that if the software build found on the dell hard >disk did start when installed in the hp it is likely to encounter multiple >hardware changes and that would trigger the need to re-activate windows >within 30 days. the dell branded windows cd does install on a dell pc >without the need to activation, but when that same cd is used on a non-dell >machine it does require activation once installed. >
From: William R. Walsh on 13 Sep 2008 21:34
Hi! > FWIW, not a factor once Windows is already installed on the drive. For Windows XP and all other versions of Windows that contain activation "features", it certainly could be. You will get an activation screen right away if enough of the hardware changes. Microsoft doesn't tell us "mere mortals" what factors are enough to cause a trigger for a second activation prompt. From personal experience, it seems to be a lot if only a few hardware changes occur over time, while a major change of configuration will provoke the activation wizard immediately. (Disclaimer: I know this because I have a machine on the bench that does nothing but test hard drives most of the time. After many hard disk swaps, it finally complained. On another machine, I changed the motherboard but kept the disk controller the same.) William |