My experience with XP OEM was rather unpredictable. In one case I swapped a HDD for another of the same brand/size just different cache size and I had to call MS. On another occasion I swapped MB/CPU/HDD and had no problems activating? I know I am not being of any help just thought I'd share. :)
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