Has anybody built their own computer here?

[gnome]

Quote from lynx2004:

"... What about the OS? ... I have a Dell which I bought with XP installed. Can I extend the license to an addional PC by paying something less than the retail price of XP?..."

No. Your Dell OEM Win XP Pro will only work on a Dell PC and is "supposed" to be tied to the mobo it came with.

 

[KS96]

Quote from gnome:

No. Your Dell OEM Win XP Pro will only work on a Dell PC and is "supposed" to be tied to the mobo it came with.

Not true with my CD.
I installed it in VMWare and works without a problem.

 

[gnome]

Quote from KS96:

Not true with my CD.
I installed it in VMWare and works without a problem.

Please clarify... Of course you can install the Dell OEM WinXP copy onto any computer, but unless you can provide a valid product key, it will deactivate after 30 days.

Have you been able to run the Dell OEM copy of XP on another computer past 30 days and receive Windows Updates?

 

[r-in]

Here's what I was planning on a for a build. Appreciate anyones 2 cents.
Intel E6600

Asus P5N32-E SLI LGA 775 Nvidia nForce 680i SLI

Crucial Ballistix 2gb

Thermallake Eureka case(full tower)

2 EVGA 256 GeFOrce 7600GT 256mb GDDR3 PCI Express x16

Rosewill 550 watt power supply

Western Digital 160 GB IDE Ultra ATA100 HD

misc CD and DVD burner

will use current monitors.

 

[demoship]

As long as you can activate it, you can get updates, etc..

Who cares if you transfer OEM software to another machine, do you think microsoft really gives a crap? They only do it so the big guys (dell, etc..) arn't letting people reuse old copies of the software.

 

[TSGannGalt]

My second computer was built.

Now Dell and others are cheaper.

 

[Tums]

Quote from demoship:

As long as you can activate it, you can get updates, etc..

Who cares if you transfer OEM software to another machine, do you think microsoft really gives a crap? They only do it so the big guys (dell, etc..) arn't letting people reuse old copies of the software.

the os came with dell, hp, etc. are tied to that machine.

when you install the os, it will first check the motherboard id. if it matches, then it will allow you to proceed. otherwise it will just crap out.

you can't even transfer the os to different computer model of the same brand.

 

[TOM134]

demoship,

I had a computer built. It's very nice, but it get's to be verrrrrrrrrrry $$$$$ and time consuming.

Check out this site = everything ready to go right out of the box:

http://www.naplestech.com/shopcart/nti_quadstation.asp

I hope this helps.

Tom

 

[mikat]

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2973&p=3

 

[lynx2004]

Quote from Tums:

the os came with dell, hp, etc. are tied to that machine.

when you install the os, it will first check the motherboard id. if it matches, then it will allow you to proceed. otherwise it will just crap out.

you can't even transfer the os to different computer model of the same brand.

So does that mean the OEM OS licence dies w/ the motherboard? What if the mobo needs replacing? How does Microsoft validation work? anyone know what it is checking on my computer?

Thanks for all the contributors here. This is turning out to be an informative thread.