> > last, it should be easy to interchange general PC parts without
> > trigerring a hard OS reinstall.  XP will refuse to boot say if your
> > motherboard chipset changes from VIA to Intel (even if the rest stays
> > the same!) kaya nga na imbento ang drivers eh!  bakit bumalik sa jurassic
> > age?
> 
> are you sure about this? you mean you have to reinstall XP if you change 
> your motherboard? I thought plug and play solved this a long time ago.
> Anyway, that kind of sux... but not majorly so.

technically it shouldn't but because of XP's licensing scheme, it
purposefully does this because it automatically assumes that you are
trying to violate its license







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