At 12:22 PM 4/9/2008, you wrote:
Unless the policy has changed, and I seriously doubt it,
Microsoft allows you to install XP on three different CPUs. When
and if you try to load it on a forth, the activation process will
fail and tell you to call customer service. I had a motherboard
fail and was already on #3. I called customer service and told them
that the old machine was dead and the rep actually reset me to zero
(!) so after loading a new machine I have two left. I was prepared
for a battle but I was boviously quite surprised. Either Microsoft
is trying to work with people who play by the rules (and don't
steal software) or I was just lucky and got the right rep.
In any event, you have nothing but your time to lose by trying to
load another machine and also to ask for help if you need it.
Ron - W2RIP
I think there is a bit of mis-understanding here, might be my OWN
mis-understanding of what Ron is trying to say too. A CPU is a
Central Processing Unit, the "Brain" of our computer. An operating
system such as XP is never installed to this CPU, but is installed to
a harddrive that is installed in the computer, which is what I
suspect Ron probably meant to say.
To my knowledge, Microsoft has never allowed one to have an operating
system such as XP, LEGALLY installed on more than one computer at a
time, without purchasing a multi system license. When Microsoft
released XP, it was with the stipulation that a customer having XP
installed on a computer, would be allowed to change up to three
devices installed on that computer, such as harddrive, video card,
memory, etc. Changing a fourth device would disable the operating
system, requiring a call to Microsoft in order to re-enable the
operating system, provided you could convince them that what you were
doing was actually installing additional devices in the same
computer, and NOT installing the operating system to a new computer.
"73" Dub
--
J. W. (Dub) Thornton K5DUB
Minco, OK.
_______________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Post to: [email protected]
You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
