Upgrading your computer - and Itunes won't open

[Mike A Rowley]

-I just upgraded my computers mother board,
-I then added 2 sata hards drives ( but kept the origonal hard drives, so that this computer now has 4 hard drives ),
-then I put two DVD burners into the computer, and XP Professional windows operating system wouldn't start, as it said the computers components had changed, so I needed a new install number.
I got a new install number from microsoft, but now itunes won't open.
I have itunes version 4, but it keeps coming up that it can't open the file.
I suspect when you first load itunes with the specific ipod serial number on the back of the ipod, it writes the code to the registry, so hence now the componets have been changed, and the XP Professionl operating system has been updated, with a new number ( it now thinks it's on another computer ) and it doesn't allow my itunes version 4 to open.
By simply using the new version 6 of itunes, will this let me open itunes, and talk to my ipod again.

Thanks

Mike.

[bbqhog]

I would start by installing the latest version of iTunes. You may also have to update your iPod's firmare with the latest version of Updater.

[Mike A Rowley]

Yeep, Loading the latest version of itunes ( Version 6 )worked, and I noted when it was installing that it said in one of the windows, ( removing serial number ........from registry ) so I think Sony/Ipod, have relised that putting numbers in the registry cause all sorts of problems, when you change components in your computer.

Wonder when they will realise, to keep everything simple, and not worry piracy.

Thanks bbqhog.