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From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List"
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Motherboard upgrade gotcha
Good thing all of my motherboard replacements are for defects.
Defects in speed, defect
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From: "Robert Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 8:53 AM
Subject: [H] Motherboard upgrade gotcha
transferred from another computer. If the motherboard is upgraded or
replaced for reasons other than a defect, the
> There have been moments where MS has denied what I thought
> were reasonable re-up requests recently and I just said "yeah, OK".
>
> I agree with someone else: I would just tell them "I had bad
> caps on that board" or "defect which caused incompatibility
> with X" or whatever.
>
> They c
;s not
the same as telling someone to buy it again ($130 or so)
CW
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington
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Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:47 AM
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Subject: RE: [H] Motherboard upgrade gotcha
At 11:18 AM
At 11:18 AM 24/02/2006, Neil Davidson wrote:
Seems fair to me. OEM software is priced lower than a retail copy because it
has these conditions attached to it. If you don't want these licensing
conditions, they you can buy a retail copy.
Come on. This is clearly a money grab, justify it as they
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Robert Turnbull
Sent: 24 February 2006 13:53
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Motherboard upgrade gotcha
From the Lockergnome newsletter:
Microsoft recently made changes to the license agreement. A
] On Behalf Of
> Robert Turnbull
> Sent: 24 February 2006 13:53
> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
> Subject: [H] Motherboard upgrade gotcha
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> From the Lockergnome newsletter:
>
> Microsoft recently made changes to the license agreement. A
> new motherboard is now apparent
Given em time, soon it will be just replacing the CPU or RAM.
"we're making more money than god, what else can we do to make more money?"
Sounds more like a way to trip up someone dumb enough to say it was for
a reason other than defect. Defect now seems to the back door to major
changes then.
Good thing all of my motherboard replacements are for defects.
Defects in speed, defects in feature list, defects in compatibility...:)
FO MSFT.
Greg
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From: "Robert Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 7:53 AM
Subject:
From the Lockergnome newsletter:
Microsoft recently made changes to the license agreement. A new motherboard
is now apparently the equal of a new computer, and if you upgrade it you
need to purchase a new Windows license. Microsoft's new policy states: An
upgrade of the motherboard is consider
At 22:30 12/15/05, FORC5 wrote:
Do you think my Win2k will boot (and allow me to update other hardware)
if I upgrade motherboards (PIII board to P4 board, both with Intel
chipsets)
but move the same SCSI card into the new motherboard?
should not be a problem but w2k can be very anal sometimes
At 10:25 PM 12/15/2005, Bill Cohane typed:
Do you think my Win2k will boot (and allow me to update other hardware)
if I upgrade motherboards (PIII board to P4 board, both with Intel chipsets)
but move the same SCSI card into the new motherboard?
Have done it several times with Win2k, Xp & once
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Cohane
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:25 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] Motherboard upgrade
At 22:10 12/15/05, FORC5 wrote:
>in device manager set hard drive to
>standard dual channel pci ide contro
should not be a problem but w2k can be very anal sometimes.
fp
At 08:25 PM 12/15/2005, Bill Cohane Poked the stick with:
>At 22:10 12/15/05, FORC5 wrote:
>>in device manager set hard drive to
>>standard dual channel pci ide controller ( I am assuming not SATA )
>>I have a reg file to set boot bac
At 22:10 12/15/05, FORC5 wrote:
in device manager set hard drive to
standard dual channel pci ide controller ( I am assuming not SATA )
I have a reg file to set boot back to default settings.
have yet to have a xp mb swap not boot. ( w2k yes but not xp )
should be on THG FTP
luck
the trick with
why not ghost the boot partition to a fresh drive, redo the boot ini but may
still require a repair install. This way at least the other drive is still
intact.
fp
At 09:47 AM 12/15/2005, Mark Dodge Poked the stick with:
>Well my XP install which I use most of the time is on a different partition
in device manager set hard drive to
standard dual channel pci ide controller ( I am assuming not SATA )
I have a reg file to set boot back to default settings.
have yet to have a xp mb swap not boot. ( w2k yes but not xp )
should be on THG FTP
luck
the trick with the add on controller works to mo
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Sent: 15 December 2005 16:47
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Subject: RE: [H] Motherboard upgrade
Well my XP install which I use most of the time is on a different partition
than the boot which is a buggered 2000 serv
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Dodge
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:47 AM
To: 'The Hardware List'
Subject: RE: [H] Motherboard upgrade
Well my XP install which I
lf Of Greg Sevart
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 6:21 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] Motherboard upgrade
Assuming it will boot completely at all. Even then, you can count on it not
working very well until you do a proper format/reinstall.
Why not just back up the boot volume and
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From: "Mark Dodge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'The Hardware List'"
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:06 PM
Subject: [H] Motherboard upgrade
I am going to install an Epox 9NPA and a 3500 and I am making sure that
there are not going to be any
I am going to install an Epox 9NPA and a 3500 and I am making sure that
there are not going to be any snafus. I have way to many gigs to try to back
up and I am worried that XP will not start at all. I currently have a MSI
Neo3 and going to Nforce4 it will not be quite the same. Should I expect XP
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