Travis King

You pretty much just explain to them that your motherboard failed, so
you didn't have much of a choice.
nick21_34 wrote:
> 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.