April 22, 201610 yr Since I am planning to change my MoBo I need to be prepared for FSX wanting to be re-activated on startup. But I dont have my serial anymore. It has been 5 years since my Installation and its running fine, so I dont really want to reinstall everything. Before getting flamed as a pirate: my FSX is legit and already installed and activated on my machine. Are there any ways (registry etc.) to prevent FSX from needing reactivation? thx in advance.
April 22, 201610 yr Somewhere out there is a little utility that will grab your FSX serial number. I can't remember what it is called or where I got it but someone here, or in the Google world, should have the info. Paul
April 23, 201610 yr Disregard bonehead post: my bad. All of the necessary info is on the hard drives and changing-out like you've done wouldn't require a re-activation for FSX. You'll need a re-install of your Operating System and that 'll require a FSX re-install. jime James D. Edwards
April 23, 201610 yr Author Disregard bonehead post: my bad. All of the necessary info is on the hard drives and changing-out like you've done wouldn't require a re-activation for FSX. You'll need a re-install of your Operating System and that 'll require a FSX re-install. jime I know thats recommended, but a reinstall of my FSX with all addons will take me months. I changed MoBo like that before with my current installation, usually it works, provided you can remove the hardware drivers. In my case, I replace an ASUS M4A board with an M5A one, which means I only need to update chipset drivers to get it working and should be fine. And no, its not true that this doesnt require reactivation. The last time I did this FSX knew I had my MoBo changed and wanted me to enter my serial number again.
April 25, 201610 yr Author Reporting back, everything hardware related worked without issues after performing clean driver uninstalls. Howevery, as I suspected, FSX wants to be reactivated. :\ EDIT: nevermind
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