ok with my acer aspire m1201
if i replace the mobo with..... one of these
MSI K9A2 Platinum Motherboard - AMD790FX, Socket AM2+, ATX, Audio, PCI Express 2.0, Gigabit LAN, SPDIF, USB 2.0, Firewire, eSATA, RAID K9A2Platinum at TigerDirect.com
Asus M3A78-T Motherboard - AMD 790GX, Socket AM2+, ATX, Audio, CrossFireX, PCI Express 2.0, Gigabit LAN, SPDIF, USB 2.0, Serial ATA, RAID, eSATA, HDMI at TigerDirect.com
will my acer restore disk work or will i have to buy vista again?

Hi,

M$ won't deal with it now. They have handed all responsibility for oem preinstalls to the oem.

You will need to contact Acer and explain you need to change your mobo.

The recovery disc will not work with a different mobo.

Acer may send you one that will.

Otherwise, get hold of a Vista install disc - the right bit version (32 or 64 bit ) .Install using that and the product key stickered on your laptop.

You will probably need to call Acer to activate it.

Hope it helps

SIW2

well its a desktop..... not a laptop lol
so if i could find a vista disk i could use my key?

so i can't use my key?...... dang it.....
hm maybe i won't upgrade right away then........... i'll wait a couple of years..... thanks anyway guys

Hi pizzaman,

Probably worth calling Acer , as Shawn says.

Afaik the license doesn't let you move it to another machine, but you should be able to upgrade your existing one.

Persuading Acer is another matter, but it's got to be worth ringing them.

SIW2

well so far all thats still original in my m1201 is the mobo, processor, and the ram (which will prolly be replaced with some corsair or patriot friday )......... o and one hard drive and vista