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Originally Posted by NOODLESgoneWILD
Now to answer you question about adding hardwear...Anytime you change mother boards your going to have that problem, as when you Validate your OS, it'll binds itself to the Mother Board. Im not sure how to get around that once you've Validated an OS...but as I installed this verson of Vista OEM was up to me if and when I wanted to validate it...You have have 3 days to Activate the OS (which you dont have a chose)...and its your choise to Register and Validate the softwear...You can choise not to Register and or Validate the OS...but if you dont, you'll have issues when you want to recieve updates and or download programs from MS...My advise would be...up grade your current computer to the hardwear specs you think you'll need or want...then do a complete installation with the OEM verison of Vista...I think everything will work out ok for you then!!!
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Very nice.... I amy have to splurge and upgrade myself.
As for the part in bold above, I am not sure on the specifics with XP, if you had bought the full version, not just the OEM version, you could change out your motherboard and/or processor and not have any problems; however, with the OEM version it does exactly what you described above creating an authentication error when you swap out parts. This also prevents you from pulling a hard drive out of an old computer and just installing it in a new computer.
I assume the OEM version of vista operates the same way, but wasn't sure about the full version...