nick21_34

so there is no official way of doin it? and by convince do you mean ring up
and beg?

"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.
>