To reinstall XP 64 bit

[Dman877]

I built my father a system a few months back for some work he was doing and he needed 8 gigs of ram. I opted for XP over Vista. Now, he's having stability issues on it. I'm pretty sure it isn;t the hardware, everything is at stock settings and I even overclocked it for a bit and ran P95, no problems. My next step is to reinstall the OS.

I've never had to deal with windows activation before though. When I built his system, I activated the license or whatever. If I want to reinstall it, is there anything I need to do special or can I just format/install/re-activate?

 

[hennessy1]

If the hardware is the same then most likely it wont ask for reactivation but if it does then just go thru the actiavtion screens or call MS. No bigie

 

[bruceb]

Also, the windows activation servers reset after a bit .. about 4-6 months
or so. So you should have no issues with a reactivation. And if it balks,
call MS explain that due to system issues it was reinstalled.

 

[Dman877]

Thanks for the info.

 

[XBoxLPU]

http://netsecurity.about.com/o...p/qt/aaqtwinxp0829.htm