Don't worry about the activaton. It will work. If all else fails, you can
call in by phone. That doesn't take but a few minutes.
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"SeasThrew" <SeasThrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:76220765-885D-4C0C-B23E-B7594E698905@microsoft.com...
> Hello everybody,
>
> After only 14 months my Dell Dimension (MB I think) has increduously
> failed.
> Given that this is the first non self-snapped together PC I owned I have
> decided to salvage what's left in the Dell (RAM, Vid card, SATA HDs, PS,
> DVD)
> and put together a new PC. The new PC will have new Intel MB (765G
> chipsset,
> a Multimedia MB), a new Intel Core Dual CPU, and a new case.
>
> My questions are:
>
> a) Will Vista (Ultimate x64) be able to boot after having the MB and the
> CPU
> swapped out from under it? (The MB change is incremental one from Intel
> and
> not a radical departure from the old Dell MB, the old CPU is a Pentium 4
> 3.0
> GHz dual core, and not a 1.86 Ghz Conroe Core Dual though I understand the
> Core Dual is supposed to be faster?)
>
> b) I guess this means I will haved to activate again after less than a
> week
> and probably by phone! Is this true?
>
> Thanks for your help.