New motherboard wont load OS

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Giveinuptheghost

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I just got and installed an MSI P6N SLi Platinum nForce 650i intel socket and i switced every thing over to this new board when i go to boot it POSTs but goes into the vista diganostic mode and tries to fix a problem then said it cant fix it. I'm assuming its looking for the old motherboard and cant find it and doesnt know about the new one. I've just DL'ed the new drivers and its still doing it any help that any one could offer would be great :P

intel core 2 duo 2ghz 2 ghz ddr2 5300 ram, 8500 geforce GT, 400gb HD. and as for the old board I have no idea its a generic motherboard out of a ACER T690 (i'm putting in the MSI P6N one as the replacement). :P
 
Yea, i've been reading about how windows doesn't like motherboard changes very much. I dont have a copy of vista to reinstall I have a valid key according to Acer Tech support i just need a copy. I wanna make sure that there is nothing else that i can do before I, well... "give up the ghost" and wipe the HD. :o
 
Do I have to rebuy Vista because Acer wont give me a windows CD they will only give me (by give i mean charge me 20 damn dollars) for a recovery CD that has the old mobo drivers. They didn't include a recovery CD with the orginal box. I've tried microsoft they said that since it was installed on my comp when i bought it that i need to go though Acer for the copy. Kinda seems like a catch 22 doesn't it?
 
Wonderful! Well I want to use my new board so I’m going to wipe and install XP since I have a copy of that with a key. Then wait till I can buy vista 64bit and move on from there. Also I just got an email back from the MSI tech finally this is what he said. ( btw thanks for the late night help Garethman!!)


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This is normal when you have a HDD with previous installed OS on the drive. You can try with first by reinstall OS on top of your current HDD which is performing an OS Repair. This will not erase/delete any of your current data on the HDD. You can also perform a clean install of OS using this new board. You can also contact Microsoft for this issue which they will go over some registry changes in order to work for their OS. This is an OS issue/problem so please consult with Microsoft. www.microsoft.com
 
I have heard of people doing a windows repaire when thay have replaced a mobo but the best thing to do is buy a copy of vista and do a complete reinstall, the windows recovery cd you got with the pc is tied to the hardware and mobo so it will not be possible to use it to reinstall windows with the new mobo.
 
would be illegal though. If you upgrade the motherboard in a machine with an OEM copy of windows, you must buy a new version.
 
If it a proper copy of windows and you ring Microsoft telling them you have had to replace the mobo and Microsoft tell you that you can activate it i fail to see whats illegal about it .
 
because it actually says in the EULA that you cant do that

The software license is permanently assigned to the device with which you acquired the software. That device is the “licensed device.” A hardware partition is considered to be a separate device.
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And here is the absolute killer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824125/en-us

Users who run a Microsoft Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) operating system may upgrade or replace most of the hardware components on the computer and still maintain the license for the original Microsoft OEM operating system software provided by the OEM, with the exception of an upgrade or a replacement of the motherboard. An upgrade or a replacement of the motherboard is considered to create a new personal computer. Therefore, Microsoft OEM operating system software cannot be transferred from another computer. If the motherboard is upgraded or replaced for reasons other than a defect then a new computer is created, and a new operating system license is required. If the motherboard is replaced because of a defect, the user does not need to acquire a new operating system license for the computer. The motherboard replacement must be the same make and model, or the same manufacturer’s replacement or equivalent, as defined by that manufacturer’s warranty. The reason for this licensing rule primarily relates to the end-user license agreement (EULA) and the support of the software covered by that EULA. The EULA is a set of usage rights granted to the end-user by the computer manufacturer. The EULA relates only to rights for that software as installed on that particular computer. The System Builder is required to support the software on that individual computer.

Understanding that end-users, over time, upgrade their computers with different components, Microsoft views the CPU as the one remaining base component that still defines that original computer. Because the motherboard contains the CPU, when the motherboard is replaced for reasons other than defect, a new computer is essentially created. Therefore, the original OEM cannot be expected to support this new computer that they did not manufacture.
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So you are screwed. If you upgrade your motherboard, you need to buy a new copy of xp, regardless of whether it activates or not, its still illegal.
 
This is a 50-50 thing. There is a difference in a OEM copy that came with a computer like a Acer/Dell/Sony and so on and a System Builders OEM that you buy at like Newegg. The later is eaiser to activate with hardware updates.

But if you do have the first type OEM/Acer and changed hardware, called Microsoft and they activate it, then the EULA rules is kinda mute since microsoft itself activated it. After all its there rules and they activated it.
 
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