John Barnes

Contained in the FAQ, Mary Jo discovered the following question and answer:

Q. How do hardware changes impact system reactivation requirement?

A. As long as the change is below 25 points you do not need to re-activate.
Here is the table to determine total points. This applies to both Windows
Vista client and Longhorn server for retail activation, MAK activation and
KMS activation. [Emphasis added]

Component Class Name Default Weight
CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD-ROM 1
IDE Adaptor 3
Physical OS Hard Drive Serial # 11
Display Adaptor 1
SCSI Adaptor 2
Audio Adaptor 2
Network Adaptor MAC Address 2
Processor 3
RAM Amount Range (i.e. 0-512mb, 512-1GB) 1
BIOS ID ('0' always matches) 9


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OFdF7M3uHHA.3356@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Quite a while ago (many months actually) I read somewhere that the hard
> drive constituted the largest point value against reactivation. If I can
> find it again, I will post it here.
>
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> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
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> "cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in
> message news:0tod83dleae5ftkd3ovc4h6o6vbgrbi20i@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:35:01 -0400, "AJR" <ajrjdr@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>BUT - keep in mind - most likely reactivation of the OS will be required
>>>and
>>>probalby necessary by phone.
>>
>> Could you explain this please?
>>
>> We're told:
>> - Vista uses same activation system as XP
>> - XP watches 10 items, 7 must "survive" (i.e. lose 4, die)
>> - a new HD = 1 "life"
>> - loss of volume serial number = 1 "life"
>>
>> If all of the above are true, then why should swapping HD - especially
>> if cloning and thus preserving volume secrial number - trigger Vista's
>> activation payload?
>>
>>
>>
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