Originally posted by str8jkt
FYI, you can also get this message if you have made any major changes to your hardware since XP was installed. IE, new hard drives, motherboards, cpu's, etc.. (usually a combination of the above) can cause Microsoft to believe that it is a new system and give you the message you received.
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Actually, shouldn't only ask you to "reactivate" your copy of windows? Just last week I had a CMOS battery die in a very integrated motherboard, and so when the machine booted suddenly a whole host of hardware showed up that had previously been disabled in the BIOS (video, audio, LAN, serial, parallel among others) and Windows popped up that enough hardware had changed that I was required to reactivate - nothing about my copy being non-genuine (since it is a legitimate copy of WinXP Home Upgrade). 10 seconds to reactivate over the internet, and it was back in business.
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