Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (OEM version)

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Stoic Sentinel

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Alright, so here's the deal: I'm upgrading to Windows 7... when it comes, and then I'm going to try to earn enough money to buy a Radeon HD 5870, will that require a call to Microsoft? (I don't like dealing with "tech support" :P)

-Just out of curiosity, can you upgrade from an OEM to a retail? Example: You have Windows Vista HP x64 OEM, can you upgrade into Win 7 HP x64 *Retail*?
 
Why would you call microsoft when you earn enough money to buy a 5870?? To brag? I'm sure they can afford them too!! :P

You can format over any o/s!
 
Stoic Sentinel said:
LOL, that's not what I meant, I meant that since I have the OEM version, will the hardware change require a call to reactivate the key or something?
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LOL..I know..I'm just hassling yeh!!:D

Nah, you are good, save up, get your monster card..install and enjoy!

I'm using OEM win7 pro64 on all my machines and I have swapped out stuff for friends in the last few days..no issues at all!!::)
 
Stoic Sentinel said:
LOL, that's not what I meant, I meant that since I have the OEM version, will the hardware change require a call to reactivate the key or something?
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I can't speak from experience, but I read the Win7 article in the Nov. issue of Maximum PC today and they complained about the process of having to call MS when installing a new piece of hardware. However, they seemed to be using the retail versions of Win7 (or at least never made a reference to OEM and instead showed only the retail pricing).
 
JohnJSal said:
I can't speak from experience, but I read the Win7 article in the Nov. issue of Maximum PC today and they complained about the process of having to call MS when installing a new piece of hardware. However, they seemed to be using the retail versions of Win7 (or at least never made a reference to OEM and instead showed only the retail pricing).
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What? How so?

The only things that should require re-activating is the following:

-Hard Drive (Obviously)
-Motherboard


And actually with a little bit of cleaning up the OS you can change out the mobo w/o reinstalling the OS.
 
g25racer said:
What? How so?

The only things that should require re-activating is the following:

-Hard Drive (Obviously)
-Motherboard


And actually with a little bit of cleaning up the OS you can change out the mobo w/o reinstalling the OS.
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I don't know the validity of any of their comments, but here's an example of what the article said:

"For example, upgrading a hard drive or videocard frequently requires a call to Microsoft's phone activation line." (p. 52)

Edit: Again, I don't know if they are using OEM or retail, or if they are just complaining about a past problem and assuming it still exists in Win7. They didn't actually say that they went through this process. The complaint seems very general and ambiguous.
 
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