Does a new motherboard mean a new Vista license?

If i was the OP i would take the advice that said 'just phone MS and tell them you changed motherboard.'
If anyone advises a person to go buy a new copy of vista they should be ashamed of themselves tbh.
 
Breach said:
If i was the OP i would take the advice that said 'just phone MS and tell them you changed motherboard.'
If anyone advises a person to go buy a new copy of vista they should be ashamed of themselves tbh.
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Even though to remain license legal they do have to go and buy another copy of Vista?
Why should anyone be ashamed of themselves for advising somebody remains legal?

Question.
If I buy a ticket for 2nd class travel on a train, should I be able to sit in 1st class anyway?
I mean, I bought the ticket for the same train. There was space in 1st class so I wasn't stopping somebody else from sitting there.
 
This argument seems to crop up every other week and every time people seem to believe that its fine, we are not going to change someone's mind even though they are wrong, all that we can do is give advice, its up to you if you choose to follow that advice.

If you use an OEM copy of windows and replace the motherboard yourself (yourself not being a licensed system builder), you will break the license if you reinstall that copy of windows on that computer. I think what confuses people is that you do not pay for the software, you are paying for a license to use that software, there is a key difference.

It doesn't matter that you have 'paid' for it, you have paid for the OEM license and you have to buy another license to remain legal, end of story.
 
stoofa said:
You also need to realise the difference between physically and legally possible.
As I said in my example before.
Legally I need a driving license to drive a car.
Physically I can drive one without ever having a lesson or owning a license.
One is legal, one isn't.

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I dont see where you phoned up/spoke to the "authority" who agreed to you physically driving the car

Thats why that example is blatantly stupid

By phoning MS I am talking to the Licence Authority in EXACTLY the same way as someone taking a test

I am not going behind their back and just getting in a car and driving unsafely
 
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Hello FrankJH, as stoofa has already said, what you can physically do and what you can do legally are two separate things. As well as, you may be activated but that doesn't necessary mean that you are licensed.

If you go out and purchase the OEM license of Windows, you should know and fully understand the licensing terms of that particular license being; You can change any system component in your system as many times as you wish apart from the motherboard and you will still be licensed. Now you may have to re-activate Windows after a hardware and/or configuration change either by the online process or if it fails for various reasons, you will have to ring them up. If you do have to ring them up and speak with a Microsoft Agent, just tell them the truth, what exactly has happened and they will happily re-activate your copy of Windows for you. You will not be violating the EULA and you are still within your rights to use Windows.

Now if you change your motherboard for a performance upgrade (We are not talking about replacing your motherboard under warranty), then I am afraid you will have to purchase a new copy of Windows (License). If you wish to use the same copy of Windows with your brand new motherboard, the only way you are going to get Windows re-activated is if you ring up Microsoft and lie to them. You now may be activated but you are certainly no longer licensed and would have just broken the EULA.

You now may say that if Microsoft themselves activated Windows Vista for me, how can I off just violated the terms of the EULA? They gave you a new code because you had lied to them, if you had said the truth that you changed your motherboard for a performance upgrade, they will then say to you, you will have to go out and purchase a new copy of Windows. Their is a certain amount of trust Microsoft give its customers concerning this and if you wish to abuse this then that is up to you. :)
 
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