OzyOly said:
Yes Illegal and full paird for, an OEM licence in which you change the motherboard and reactivate via the phone. But let's not even go there.
Retail you can change the mobo.
Yes, sorry... I realised what you mean...
I was looking at it as if you had meant to say
"A LEGAL and paid for.."
I see what you say now.
hk3948 said:
sorry guys, ive been trauling through this thread waiting for an answer but have given up on third page. im just unclear as to ms's detection system for hardware changes, or is there none. when you do phone ms up for reactivation, do they simply ask you why you need it and rely on you telling them if you have changed some hardware are your components detected and info sent to ms so that they would kow if you had changed mobo for eg? apologies if this has been covered already
The way the Chexum works ( Although I dont know the algorithm ) is that each bit of hardware in your PC, has a unique identifier number.. the chexum code is made up by using all the numbers for all your hardware to make up one magic number...
This magic number, when reverse-coded, will tell MS exactly what hardware you had when you activated it.
So, when activating then and now, these numbers will be different.
For example...
ABIT Motherboards Might be the number 01
The Abit Motherboard model Might be number 02
Your graphics card might be 03
Now, if this chexum is 010203 then it will tell MS that you have an ABIT Neo2 and ATI Radeon x800 graphics..
However...
IWILL Motherboards might be 02, your new Motheroard might be IWILLs version of Number 02 and then the chexum number might be 020203
So, while it looks like only the first number 01 has changed to 02, it will show MS that its a copletely different Motherboard altogether
I dont know how it works, I have not read up on it, but I guess that is pretty much a basic version of how the activation works when it comes down to your hardware.