I would personally like to know which users bought a store computer with its OEM Vista o/s, decided to upgrade to a better mobo, cpu, and ram and SUCCESSFULLY reinstalled their original Vista o/s?
Articles online say you cant do it without giving MS a phone call. With Vista being so old, calling them up to talk to an over-seas CSR, they might just tell me to pound sand, like the HP rep in India did when I asked for a copy of Vista to reinstall. HP will not be getting my business ever again!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well especially for a new system, refurb for a hundred or two, maybe but HP's got a bad stain on them now in my books. I'd be inclined to buy Lenovo.
Good news is after joining this forum, I was able to obtain Vista from downloading an ISO file. Much appreciated.
I will give Vista another chance, due to the fact I dont want to spend another $50 to $150cdn on Windows 7. But the moment Vista crashes on a fresh install onto a new SSD hard drive, I will be more pissed off then usual. Especially if I decide to gamble and upgrade mobo, cpu and ram to a price conscious setup (AMD, DDR3) then a system performance setup (Intel, DDR4).
My original question still stands in front of my ramblings.
Thanks
Articles online say you cant do it without giving MS a phone call. With Vista being so old, calling them up to talk to an over-seas CSR, they might just tell me to pound sand, like the HP rep in India did when I asked for a copy of Vista to reinstall. HP will not be getting my business ever again!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well especially for a new system, refurb for a hundred or two, maybe but HP's got a bad stain on them now in my books. I'd be inclined to buy Lenovo.
Good news is after joining this forum, I was able to obtain Vista from downloading an ISO file. Much appreciated.
I will give Vista another chance, due to the fact I dont want to spend another $50 to $150cdn on Windows 7. But the moment Vista crashes on a fresh install onto a new SSD hard drive, I will be more pissed off then usual. Especially if I decide to gamble and upgrade mobo, cpu and ram to a price conscious setup (AMD, DDR3) then a system performance setup (Intel, DDR4).
My original question still stands in front of my ramblings.
Thanks
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- HP a6745f
- CPU
- AMD Athlon X2 5050e 2.6GHz 2-Core AM2/AM2+
- Motherboard
- MSI - MS-7548 (Aspen) Chipset: AMD 780G
- Memory
- DDR2 - PC2-6400 (800 MHz) with 4GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeFroce GTX 650
- Sound Card
- stock
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG 27" LCD
- Screen Resolution
- I dont know
- Hard Drives
- Stock WD 320GB 7200rpm
120GB Patriot Blast SSD-HD
- PSU
- Upgraded to 650W from 300W
- Case
- stock HP Pavilion
- Cooling
- stock
- Keyboard
- Logitech wireless
- Mouse
- Logitech wireless
- Internet Speed
- got no clue
