Many times a phone call to MS is all that is needed. You can mention
that it is the same brand of motherboard, but a different model #.
--
Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com http://www.vistarip.com
Travis King wrote:
> You have two options... You could either pay a visit to eBay and see if
> you can find the same exact motherboard, which that doesn't even always
> work, or you can go ahead and reinstall Windows and at least try to
> convince MS to grant you a re-activation. I've seen this happen
> successfully many times.
>
> nick21_34 wrote:
>> my mobo on my dad's pc just broke and he has an oem version! from what
>> i have heard your oem is bound to your mobo in some way, is there any
>> way to lift this cos i really dont want to have to buy another oem.