Sounds strange. My experience with drastic system change (I replaced a mobo, RAM, video card, tv tuner, and a sound card, all at the same time on one computer) was not like what you mentioned. XP told me to reactivate (understandable in my situation), and it worked on first try.
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Sounds strange. My experience with drastic system change (I replaced a mobo, RAM, video card, tv tuner, and a sound card, all at the same time on one computer) was not like what you mentioned. XP told me to reactivate (understandable in my situation), and it worked on first try.