SeasThrew

Hey everybody,

Thanks for the advice. The XP Home was Dell OEM but I bought Vista Ultimate
Full on Tues. What about Vista? Excellent, an OS that I call art it's so well
thought out. I just bought a Home Premium Upgrade I'm going to install on my
Toshishba Portege M200 Tablet PC even though it can't do Aero because I'm so
impressed. The tablet & mobile improvements make it worth the 50 USD.

The Dell MB fried yesterday (HW usually does that in winter the dry and &
temp fluctuations exposes bad QC quickly) & I actually got the same answer
from Dell's online diag troubleshooter as what I supposed (the machine just
cut off & can't be powered up despite removal of everything that draws power.
The flea LED on MB is lit). Oh well, I got an updated HW for 400 USD but I'll
be waiting for a decent price DX10 vid card.

Honestly, which vid cards are better nVidia or ATI for 3D? i heard negative
things about ATI 3D but I always take things with a grain of salt unless it
sounds like an independent evaluation.

Thanks again.

"Saucy Lemon" wrote:

> 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.
>
>