x64 system upgrade format problems

Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on upgrading
it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if formating my
system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem when I try and reg
it with microsoft, like xp home?

Thanks
Ralph

Rick
Fri Jul 01 09:41:55 CDT 2005

That's a very good question since there is nothing published that
implies XP Home will support more than one CPU.

But the question should really be posed in an XP Home newsgroup rather
than here since it would have no effect on XP x64.

Shifter wrote:
> Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on upgrading
> it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if formating my
> system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem when I try and reg
> it with microsoft, like xp home?
>
> Thanks
> Ralph

Mike
Fri Jul 01 09:45:53 CDT 2005

"Shifter" <Shifter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBC79B3E-C65A-45AD-A91C-9A7DB2B50A95@microsoft.com...
> Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on
> upgrading
> it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if formating my
> system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem when I try and
> reg
> it with microsoft, like xp home?

No - you may just have to activate via the telephone.

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"Shifter" <Shifter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBC79B3E-C65A-45AD-A91C-9A7DB2B50A95@microsoft.com...
> Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on
> upgrading
> it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if formating my
> system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem when I try and
> reg
> it with microsoft, like xp home?
>
> Thanks
> Ralph

M
Fri Jul 01 10:17:24 CDT 2005

If you are just replacing the CPU, why the reinstall?

"Shifter" <Shifter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBC79B3E-C65A-45AD-A91C-9A7DB2B50A95@microsoft.com...
> Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on
> upgrading
> it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if formating my
> system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem when I try and
> reg
> it with microsoft, like xp home?
>
> Thanks
> Ralph

Andre
Fri Jul 01 10:17:22 CDT 2005

The 32 bit editions of Windows XP do not have specific individual
newsgroups.
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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"Rick" <rick@home.net> wrote in message
news:OoEZHskfFHA.3916@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> That's a very good question since there is nothing published that implies
> XP Home will support more than one CPU.
>
> But the question should really be posed in an XP Home newsgroup rather
> than here since it would have no effect on XP x64.
>
> Shifter wrote:
>> Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on
>> upgrading it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if
>> formating my system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem
>> when I try and reg it with microsoft, like xp home?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ralph

Shifter
Fri Jul 01 12:26:05 CDT 2005

sorry, cpu motherboard, memory, video card is getting changed. wanted to go
with pci express and old mb is agp.

"M. Murcek" wrote:

> If you are just replacing the CPU, why the reinstall?
>
> "Shifter" <Shifter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BBC79B3E-C65A-45AD-A91C-9A7DB2B50A95@microsoft.com...
> > Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on
> > upgrading
> > it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if formating my
> > system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem when I try and
> > reg
> > it with microsoft, like xp home?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ralph
>
>
>

M
Fri Jul 01 12:38:09 CDT 2005

Gotcha - I figured there was something else going on.

"Shifter" <Shifter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3372EB74-A735-4A11-80E4-1DF5B2C863C9@microsoft.com...
> sorry, cpu motherboard, memory, video card is getting changed. wanted to
> go
> with pci express and old mb is agp.
>
> "M. Murcek" wrote:
>
>> If you are just replacing the CPU, why the reinstall?
>>
>> "Shifter" <Shifter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BBC79B3E-C65A-45AD-A91C-9A7DB2B50A95@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on
>> > upgrading
>> > it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if formating my
>> > system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem when I try and
>> > reg
>> > it with microsoft, like xp home?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Ralph
>>
>>
>>

John
Fri Jul 01 12:39:02 CDT 2005

I have built a new computer in the past with almost that many changes and
moved the hard drive with the operating system to the new system and just
had to re activate. Everything else was recognized and installed with no
problems. I did have a Retail system so that was no problem and I just had
to verify the OS was in just one system.


"Shifter" <Shifter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3372EB74-A735-4A11-80E4-1DF5B2C863C9@microsoft.com...
> sorry, cpu motherboard, memory, video card is getting changed. wanted to
> go
> with pci express and old mb is agp.
>
> "M. Murcek" wrote:
>
>> If you are just replacing the CPU, why the reinstall?
>>
>> "Shifter" <Shifter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BBC79B3E-C65A-45AD-A91C-9A7DB2B50A95@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on
>> > upgrading
>> > it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if formating my
>> > system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem when I try and
>> > reg
>> > it with microsoft, like xp home?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Ralph
>>
>>
>>

Colin
Fri Jul 01 12:55:10 CDT 2005

Since you obviously have a 939-pin socketed mobo, all you should need is a
BIOS flash before swapping cpu's. Check with the Mobo manufacturer for
availability of BIOS updates to support x2 chips. If the change in the cpu
id is all that happens, I doubt that you will trigger re-activation. In
general the trigger requires a number of hardware changes.

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"Shifter" <Shifter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBC79B3E-C65A-45AD-A91C-9A7DB2B50A95@microsoft.com...
> Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on
> upgrading
> it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if formating my
> system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem when I try and
> reg
> it with microsoft, like xp home?
>
> Thanks
> Ralph

Charlie
Fri Jul 01 14:28:29 CDT 2005

that's not wha the was asking, I think. He had problems before with XP Home,
and hopes that Professional x64 Edition won't give him those.

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Rick wrote:
> That's a very good question since there is nothing published that
> implies XP Home will support more than one CPU.
>
> But the question should really be posed in an XP Home newsgroup rather
> than here since it would have no effect on XP x64.
>
> Shifter wrote:
>> Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on
>> upgrading it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if
>> formating my system and reinstalling it is going to give me a
>> problem when I try and reg it with microsoft, like xp home?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ralphtha

Colin
Fri Jul 01 15:21:01 CDT 2005

Sorry, I thought you were only changing out the cpu. You will need to
reactivate with that many changes but you may not have to do it over the
phone. It depends a little on how many activations you have made already.
Activation is pretty painless even by phone.

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"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(nojunk)@msn.com> wrote in message
news:%23p%234LYmfFHA.4008@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Since you obviously have a 939-pin socketed mobo, all you should need is a
> BIOS flash before swapping cpu's. Check with the Mobo manufacturer for
> availability of BIOS updates to support x2 chips. If the change in the
> cpu id is all that happens, I doubt that you will trigger re-activation.
> In general the trigger requires a number of hardware changes.
>
> --
> Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
> (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)
> "Shifter" <Shifter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BBC79B3E-C65A-45AD-A91C-9A7DB2B50A95@microsoft.com...
>> Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on
>> upgrading
>> it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if formating my
>> system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem when I try and
>> reg
>> it with microsoft, like xp home?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ralph
>
>