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Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

jbennet — Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:58 pm

Author: jbennet

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:58 pm

this has happened to me

If you have an oem xp and the mobo fails you must get one EXACTLY THE SAME or buy a new xp it clearly says in the EULA that a new motherboard constitutes a new pc

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

wyliecoyoteuk — Tue May 23, 2006 8:55 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:55 pm

Unless the mobo lacks an AGP bus.
The specs say that there is an empty PCI-E slot for future upgrades.
Why support a defunct standard (AGP)?

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

GMorgan — Tue May 23, 2006 8:41 pm

Author: GMorgan

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:41 pm

The bigger question is surely whats the point of a integrated PCI-E card. I mean the whole point of PCI-E was to get highend cards. To use it over AGP in an integrated system is just a waste of resources and an unecessary cost.

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

wyliecoyoteuk — Tue May 23, 2006 8:24 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:24 pm

Integrated graphics chipsets use the same system bus as addon they just don't have a seperate slot etc..

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

Rhakios — Tue May 23, 2006 8:10 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:10 pm

How can you have "PCI Express Integrated Graphics", I thought PCI Express was for add in cards?

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

wyliecoyoteuk — Tue May 23, 2006 7:12 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:12 pm

http://pcs.timeuk.com/computers/bargain_computers/17380

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

TheDoctor — Tue May 23, 2006 7:04 pm

Author: TheDoctor

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:04 pm

wyliecoyoteuk wrote:

Time UK are selling a box with Linux preinstalled, XP home costs �40 extra.

Do you have a URL? I can't find them via Google, and doing the middle click thing brings up the time in the UK

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

wyliecoyoteuk — Tue May 23, 2006 6:37 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 6:37 pm

Time UK are selling a box with Linux preinstalled, XP home costs �40 extra.

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

nelz — Tue May 23, 2006 4:32 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 4:32 pm

Mandriva, Gentoo, (K)Ubuntu and SUSE all have PPC options. We've moved on from the situation of a couple of years ago when the choices were Yellow Dog or Yellow Dog.

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

GMorgan — Tue May 23, 2006 3:16 pm

Author: GMorgan

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 3:16 pm

While I appreiciate that you can run Linux on PPC machines I think its fair to say the majority of distributions have a x86 option while a lot won't have PPC options. Just a matter of practicality.

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

nelz — Tue May 23, 2006 9:18 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:18 am

GMorgan wrote:

To be honest I'm actually glad Apple have started shipping on x86. My next machine (admittedly a long way off) might be an Apple just to make a statement of intent. I could always put Linux on it later and then it would be indistinguishable from a normal x86.

Some of us run Linux on PPC Apple hardware. It's not indistinguishable from x86 hardware though, the much longer battery life is a dead giveaway

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

nelz — Tue May 23, 2006 9:16 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:16 am

The GPL doesn't stop you charging for the software.

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

M0PHP — Tue May 23, 2006 8:34 am

Author: M0PHP

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:34 am

I remember some time last year reading that Dell had a Linux option that was more expensive than the same-specification Windows PC

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

jjmac — Tue May 23, 2006 4:09 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 4:09 am

Just on the "activation" issue. Wouldn't there be a registry key somewhere that stores that. Maybe if you export the various branches to seperate files you might be able to replace or restore that record in the new build. Not the easiest way to go about things i know, but a possible option if everything else turns out to be stacked against you.

jm
Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed !

Re: Reinstalling Windows XP Home after major hardware changes.

shifty_ben — Tue May 23, 2006 1:31 am

Author: shifty_ben

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 1:31 am

I think the beginning of the end started with XP, but thats just my opinion I guess. The thought occurred to me as well that technically Dell (or others) stand to gain quite a lot from selling with Linux preloaded. Lets say that with the windows boxes the box goes for 300 quid and windows is 59 on top of that, making the sale price 359. Take the same box at 300 and whack linux on, depending on which distro they use this could be free. However they could bump the price of the box up by up to 20 quid and people would probably not notice. The price increase would be on the box not the software so no GPL violation there, although IANAL.

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