Saucy Lemon

If the OS is bought OEM, the license is tied to the CPU and mobo, so
swapping out the two would require you to purchase another license to remain
legitmate.

That said, you probably can get it all working and activated with little
trouble. You may have to do a phone activation. Be careful what you say.

Saucy Lemon


"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.