Upgraded the RAM, need to re-activate XP?

[giffo]

Hi,


I recently installed some extra RAM for someone as a favor because they were old and have no experience with PCs, the machine is quite old and had only 256MB and running windows XP home.

once the new memory was installed, a message popped-up saying something along the lines of my 'hardware has changed significantly - please reactivate xp, you have three days', I asked the guy if he had ever changed any components before and he said he wouldn't know how to etc,

is this normal/expected when upgrading RAM? it just seems a little odd to me

 

[tcsenter]

The algorithm that determines when Windows should be reactivated due to 'significant hardware change' is not supposed to balk at a simple RAM upgrade, but the hardware change allowance is cumulative so a RAM upgrade can trigger it if there were other hardware changes made previously.