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HELP: CPU Upgrade == Windows upgrade?

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SpeedyVV

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Hello folks, I saw the Q6600 at such a good price I could not resist and bought it.

You can see my setup in my sig, specifically CPU is an e4300.

I currently have XP32 and Vista32 in dual boot.

When I change the CPU will I have to do a complete reinstall of the OSs?

Can I just do a recover\fix? I ask this because I am not looking forward to a complete reinstall of OS\Drivers\Apps.

Thanks for your help.
 
If you installed with the e4300, it should already have the SMP kernel in place, and you should not need to do anything.

Vista may shit itself and make you re-activate though.
 
mwarps said:
If you installed with the e4300, it should already have the SMP kernel in place, and you should not need to do anything.

Vista may shit itself and make you re-activate though.
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Thanks for your help... Then it looks like I will do the upgrade this weekend.

And yeah, kind of a Vista feature isn't it? Shiting itself that is :p
 
You do not have to reactive vista or XP for chaning the CPU. Nor the video card, hard drive, sound card, DVD-Rom, etc. When you change out the motherboard you would. It's typically an automated process. If you do have to call it's generally very fast. People on the other end just do it with no questions(in my experience)

And yes, I have done all of the above.
 
Archer75 said:
You do not have to reactive vista or XP for chaning the CPU. Nor the video card, hard drive, sound card, DVD-Rom, etc. When you change out the motherboard you would. It's typically an automated process. If you do have to call it's generally very fast. People on the other end just do it with no questions(in my experience)

And yes, I have done all of the above.
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The ODD is actually tied to WPA.
1. Display Adapter
2. SCSI Adapter
3. IDE Adapter
4. Network Adapter MAC Address
5. RAM Amount Range (i.e. 0-64MB, 64-128MB, etc)
6. Processor Type
7. Processor Serial Number
8. Hard Drive Device
9. Hard Drive Volume Serial Number
10. CD-ROM / CD-RW / DVD-ROM

The times I have had to call for activation, it does not work thru the automation, I have to talk to a real person.

India is a judgment call on being in the middle of the East or not. :D

-bZj
 
Down8 said:
The ODD is actually tied to WPA.
1. Display Adapter
2. SCSI Adapter
3. IDE Adapter
4. Network Adapter MAC Address
5. RAM Amount Range (i.e. 0-64MB, 64-128MB, etc)
6. Processor Type
7. Processor Serial Number
8. Hard Drive Device
9. Hard Drive Volume Serial Number
10. CD-ROM / CD-RW / DVD-ROM

The times I have had to call for activation, it does not work thru the automation, I have to talk to a real person.

India is a judgment call on being in the middle of the East or not. :D

-bZj
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I've never had to call to change out any of those things. I used to have 6 hard drives in this computer and a SCSI card. Changed out my DVD burner. Added 2gb of ram. Formatted twice. Never had to call.
 
Well I am about to change the CPU right now. I'll update if I have to call South East Asia.
 
Down8 said:
The ODD is actually tied to WPA.
1. Display Adapter
2. SCSI Adapter
3. IDE Adapter
4. Network Adapter MAC Address
5. RAM Amount Range (i.e. 0-64MB, 64-128MB, etc)
6. Processor Type
7. Processor Serial Number
8. Hard Drive Device
9. Hard Drive Volume Serial Number
10. CD-ROM / CD-RW / DVD-ROM

The times I have had to call for activation, it does not work thru the automation, I have to talk to a real person.

India is a judgment call on being in the middle of the East or not. :D

-bZj
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I dont think so. I have changed processors, ram, video cards, optical drives, HDD's, NIC cards and even IDE controllers without having to reactivate.

although i think if a significant number of those things are changed at once it will give a red flag for reactivation but individually it wont. The only time i have seen this happen was when i got lazy and tried putting in a new motherboard and processor without a clean re-ntsall.
 
Those don't necessarily force a call-in right away. Those are just the pcs used to compute an HID which is the trigger for reactivation. I have had to call after changing a DVD burner.

-bZj
 
Wouldn't it also depend on if you have a retail or OEM copy of Windows? Retail shouldn't need reactivation I wouldn't think, it's the OEM versions that might give you a hassle. With that being said, I've added a soundcard, a new HDD and have doubled my RAM since initially installing my OEM copy of XP and it hasn't had any problems at all.

Edit: Just remembered that I changed both my DVD drives out a little while back with no problems either.
 
So after changing the E4300 with an Q6600, both XP32 and Vista32 the system booted up just fine, and NO need for re-activation!!

I will run some benchmarks and compare the performance to the E4300.

Thanks for all the input.
 
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