Oh, yes it does exist, I built a PC with RAID 0 then decided to change to
RAID 1, Windows failed to reactivate and I had to phone MS. All that
happened was that I entered the key and a 'robot' read back an unlock code.
Never spoke to a real person and no sign of being quizzed as to ownership of
Windows.

Andi.

"Shrapnel" > wrote in message
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>I once put a hard disc from a P3-800Mhz into a Twin P4 Xeon with
> different... Well... Everything.
>
> XP just plugged and played and did not ask for re-activation.
>
> tbh, I was not aware such a feature was in XP at all, and being in the
> industry I might have heard.
>
> Jon.
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> "Praxiteles Democritus" > wrote in message
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>> On 6 Sep 2005 00:09:51 -0700, "shegeek72" > wrote:
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>>
>> >Does swapping a vid card require one to re-activate Win XP? I thought
>> >it took more hardware changes than that.
>> >
>> >SG
>>
>> It does take more than just swapping a video card. I've never been
>> flagged for swapping a video card, or even a cpu and ram for that
>> matter.
>>
>> To the OP, for $159.00 you can get yourself a eVGA E-GEFORCE 6600GT
>> 128M DDR3 AGP8X VGA DVI HD OUT VIDEO CARD.
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130220
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