Working on a young fellas P4 1.8ghz 256 ddr ram where I cleaned up a few things.I had a couple of extra sticks of 256 ddr ram laying around so I put one into his machine to bring it up to 512 ram.

After plugging in the ram and restarting XP a message along the lines of "A major hardware change has been detected and you need to reactvate XP" came up.

It reactivated no probs but come on, a major hardware change just by plugging in an extra stick of ram.

Anyone ever seen this before?

If changing the memory was all you did, that shouldn't have triggered the activation, according to this link. Unless other changes were made in the past.

click here!

Adding 256 DDR MB to my 256 DDR RAM PC, I would consider a major hardware change.
Especially if the module monitoring such events was written maybe 6 - 8 yrs. ago 256 MB increase would be a "BIG" change.
I wonder if it is a 16 bit program.

Humpty, this "young" guy I know may drop by with his P4 2.8 ghz 256 DDR RAM and have a few things cleaned up.
You're a good guy, Charlie Brown.

davey
P.S. If I reactivate my XP will my PC phone home to MS soon.

I didn't read larry's link, but if you mean motherboards, then yes. RAM wouldn't phone home, at least it should not.

AJ

From what I found on Google,I imagined running those programs may reset some info for MS.
Maybe they pick it up next Auto update or "Patch Tuesday"?
oobe/msoobe Kinda reminds of one of my all time favorite singers !!! ROY ORBISON
davey