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General => General discussion => Topic started by: boneybradley on 20 September 2012, 20:42
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The motherboard on my lads pc has fried itself and I was wondering if I can replace the mobo and re-use the oem licence. I can't buy the same mobo (made by ecs GF7050VT-M5) so was looking at an asus board
has anyone being lucky and saved the silly cost of buying new windows (unless vista is cheapo?)
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The OS is not linked to anything on the motherboard. You'll be able to use the product code.
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Indeed. Your copy of Windows will work fine if you're only changing one or two parts of the PC. ven if you change the whole thing the worst that'll happen is you need to ring a number to verify a few things.
It'll work fine :smiley:
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A few bits have already being updated.... well the ram - gpu and psu (so I guess windows won't get all that?)
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A few bits have already being updated.... well the ram - gpu and psu (so I guess windows won't get all that?)
you may need to reinstall windows if It rejects the hardware/doesn't have the drivers.
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If you replce the motherboard you'll be 100% wanting to re-install Windows.
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I guessed windows would need a re-install..... then again it's never being touched in 3 years so it's about time (and I can get the data off I want to keep)
Is anyone wise with mobo's? It has this board now http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product/Product_Detail.aspx?DetailID=858&CategoryID=1&MenuID=16&LanID=9 (http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product/Product_Detail.aspx?DetailID=858&CategoryID=1&MenuID=16&LanID=9)
and I want to make it as easy as possible to swap over and have being looking at this http://www.ebuyer.com/179118-asrock-g31m-s-r2-0-g31-socket-775-vga-out-6-channel-audio-matx-g31m-s-r2-0 (http://www.ebuyer.com/179118-asrock-g31m-s-r2-0-g31-socket-775-vga-out-6-channel-audio-matx-g31m-s-r2-0)
the spec looks quite similar?
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I think that should work fine, depending on the other parts inside the machine.
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I think the OP was wanting to know if a new mono would be a straight plug and plug swap without having to deactivate windows?
It will be unless windows detects a significant hardware change where it will unactivate itself.
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You'd have to format and re-install Windows anyway. Windows can take a lot, but not having motherboard drivers installed over the top of old ones.
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I think that should work fine, depending on the other parts inside the machine.
yeah I understand about the windows re-install, and I will call microsoft if it fails and plead!!.....
and the rest of the spec is celeron e1400 cpu - 650w psu - nvidia 8800gt gpu - 2 1gb DDR2 sticks ram (the only std bits are the motherboard and cpu... so it's already had some major parts replaced)
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you will need to re-install windows as the motherboard is the main part of a pc/laptop
memory & cpu wont do nothing to windows but motherboard will, best bet is to format & reinstall windows as if you dont your old drivers may cause a problem with the new drivers
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when calling Microsoft say that your HDD failed and not your motherboard as the reason for re-installing Windows.
For some reason I had a lot of stick when my mobo failed back in the days of XP and Microsoft guy told me to say that the HDD failed in future calls to them and they will readily give you a new activation code. Not so with a mobo. I forget the reasoning as it was many years ago.
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Microsoft have said if I'm replacing a broken motherboard then my licence will be transferred... they even sent me an e-mail confirming so if i get issues i just call and quote the reference number and they transfer the licence...
so I've now ordered a new mobo (and a disc copy of windows as it didn't come with a disc!) and it will be sorted shortly :cool:
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the OS will recognise the hardware change and you will need to phone a number and enter your code. you will not speak to an operator. it's easy and takes 10 mins