the 4 month thing i've never verified, but i've heard it's true from people who work close to M$ at my work. Anyway, if the activation hardware hash is truely one way, they can't tell what you changed, or even how much was changed, just that it is changed. so just call them, tell them you upgraded your motherboard(with onboard NIC), cpu, memory and video card and need to reactivate. they have to reactivate for you, and since they don't require personal information, they can't trace you unless you are stupid. worst case scenerio, you reactivate a key so many times it becomes suspect, so go to compusa again, and get a new key.
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