New motherboard..oem licence! will that cause issues?

[boneybradley]

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?)

[Adam]

The OS is not linked to anything on the motherboard. You'll be able to use the product code.

[bobbarley]

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 

[boneybradley]

A few bits have already being updated.... well the ram - gpu and psu (so I guess windows won't get all that?)

[Adam]

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.

[bobbarley]

If you replce the motherboard you'll be 100% wanting to re-install Windows.

[boneybradley]

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

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

the spec looks quite similar?

[bobbarley]

I think that should work fine, depending on the other parts inside the machine.

[Chris.]

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.

[bobbarley]

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.