Originally Posted by
Saab Dastard
Milo,
That's a good point - but I didn't have any activation / reactivation problem at all.
The only common features of the donor and recipient PC were the RAM, disks, DVD drives and the case!
New mobo, new processor, new graphics card (moved from AGP to PCI-e).
It is a full retail copy of Win 7, not an OEM license, perhaps that was the reason.
SD
Given you took the disk with you, it would have had the license key already inserted. What probably happened is it re-authenticated in the background without telling you - you can check this in the event log. Do this too many times and it hits a threshold and starts complaining.