Windows XP will deactivate in 20 days -- what are my options?

[Energize]

Yer - Microsoft can be real "bum heads" about their licensing.
I mean, it's not as if they are there to make money or anything is it?
</sarc>

Yeah but a mobo isnt a pc like they seem to think.

 

[Caged]

It's the best way to define it though. You're allowed to change the motherboard if the previous one failed though.

If you decide to change the graphics card, processor, and RAM at the same time then I'd challenge you to argue that it was the same PC.