VISTA THREAD - For problems, etc..

funkeh · 31 Jan 2007 at 21:41

I suppose there is no chance of selling my vista on now that its activated itself?
OEM

csmager · 31 Jan 2007 at 21:43

funkeh said:
I suppose there is no chance of selling my vista on now that its activated itself?
OEM

No chance of using it again if you change the motherboard either.

wormvortex · 31 Jan 2007 at 21:55

funkeh said:
Anyone considering Vista with a 939 nforce 3 mobo, dual core cpu and an ATI card, forget it unless your happy to disable 1 core.
It seems Nvidia will not be sorting out the nforce3 chipset drivers.

Bang goes my idea of getting a year or 2 more out of this pc if I want to use Vista.
Bought an x1950 yesterday aswell
Oh well, back to xp.....

Better not affect nforce 4 939's with Nvida graphics cards.

ihatelag · 31 Jan 2007 at 21:59

csmager said:
No chance of using it again if you change the motherboard either.

Not true, you can call them up anytime and they will accomodate your change.

Anyway, im going to try and register with them for free technical support - for at least when I get a serious critical problem - http://www.microsoft.com/oem

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Just out of curiosity, has anyone (if you're in the computer biz) tried using OPK with vista ultimate oem? - dont reply if you don't know what opk is. I am planning on setting up a system later for a friend (sort-of) and charge him for my custom build solution. Do you think it's worth using OPK with vista? Any problems experienced? (dont worry it's not for just one PC, im planning on setting up several systems using it)
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csmager · 31 Jan 2007 at 22:02

ihatelag said:
Not true, you can call them up anytime and they will accomodate your change.

Is true - if you change your motherboard you're deemed to have changed the machine, thus invalidating the license. There are many, many, many, many threads on this.

ihatelag · 31 Jan 2007 at 22:22

csmager said:
Is true - if you change your motherboard you're deemed to have changed the machine, thus invalidating the license. There are many, many, many, many threads on this.

If you register yourself with microsoft you will not have this problem. They ask a few questions taken from the security phase and that's it, you will be able to install the OS again. Tried and tested. Unfortunately, there are those that have some *cough* license issues which could be the problem - otherwise there is no problem at all

csmager · 31 Jan 2007 at 22:27

ihatelag said:
If you register yourself with microsoft you will not have this problem. They ask a few questions taken from the security phase and that's it, you will be able to install the OS again. Tried and tested. Unfortunately, there are those that have some *cough* license issues which could be the problem - otherwise there is no problem at all

But changing machine still invalidates the EULA, it's all written in there. I doubt that registering with microsoft miraculaously gives you a different set of T&Cs.

This has been done to death here over the last few weeks, one huge thread being this:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17672576

Specifically:

"You can upgrade your system if you have an OEM licence, however, the OEM licence is linked to the machine it was sold with. So, with all the upgrades you may wish to carry out, when is your PC no longer the original PC and when is it a totally new machine? Well to simplify things, Microsoft has defined the term ‘device’ to have changed when the motherboard has been replaced, therefore any motherboard upgrade would be deemed a new machine, which would require a new licence. In the past, Microsoft has been quite lenient in their policy of giving out activation codes. With Vista, Microsoft has made a firm stance about not giving out activation codes to people who have violated the EULA. So in future you may be denied activation which would render the product useless. Retail bypasses this problem as the licence is not tied to the machine it was installed on, and consequently you can change the motherboard and still have a fully licensed machine."

ihatelag · 31 Jan 2007 at 22:34

csmager said:
But changing machine still invalidates the EULA, it's all written in there. I doubt that registering with microsoft miraculaously gives you a different set of T&Cs.

This has been done to death here over the last few weeks, one huge thread being this:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17672576

Specifically:

Sigh...in my boredom of this topic I decided to wipe my C: drive

bikes · 1 Feb 2007 at 01:33

MrMatteh said:
DU meter doesnt work either

Works fine on mine matey :confused:

Snow-Munki · 1 Feb 2007 at 09:23

quick question rather than start a new thread...

anyway to download a tool to see what indoex score my PC might get ? It's only

athlon 3200
1 gig ram
onboard 6150 nvidia gfx ?

no good ?

Darkaber · 1 Feb 2007 at 09:27

Snow-Munki said:
quick question rather than start a new thread...

anyway to download a tool to see what indoex score my PC might get ? It's only

athlon 3200
1 gig ram
onboard 6150 nvidia gfx ?

no good ?

Hi

I get a sore of 2.0 runing on my lappy which is 1.6ghz intel centrino 1gb of ram and intel onboard grahics runs really smooth 4 me

Mr Fujisawa · 1 Feb 2007 at 09:55

question. i cant find the option to add custom resolutions in the 100.54 beta x64 driver. is this not included? if not, whrere can i add custom rezzes?

wnb · 7 Feb 2007 at 11:30

I have the netgrea wg311t wireless card adn I cant get the beta drivers to work. Weird thing is, is that it worked fine with the beta with xp drivers.