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Sorry, I thought you were only changing out the cpu. You will need to
reactivate with that many changes but you may not have to do it over the
phone. It depends a little on how many activations you have made already.
Activation is pretty painless even by phone.

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"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(nojunk)@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Since you obviously have a 939-pin socketed mobo, all you should need is a
> BIOS flash before swapping cpu's. Check with the Mobo manufacturer for
> availability of BIOS updates to support x2 chips. If the change in the
> cpu id is all that happens, I doubt that you will trigger re-activation.
> In general the trigger requires a number of hardware changes.
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> Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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> "Shifter" <> wrote in message
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>> Hi I had just bought x64 for my 3200+ machine and was planning on
>> upgrading
>> it to a 4800 x2 in a couple of months and was wondering if formating my
>> system and reinstalling it is going to give me a problem when I try and
>> reg
>> it with microsoft, like xp home?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ralph
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