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a way to change oem key to retail? or make factory oem key work
ok let me start at the beginning..
I bought a gateway pc about 6 months ago and I am having major issues with it, I have had a few people I game with have alook and they seem to think its a hardware issue. I have reinstalled windows from the recovery partition once with no change. The machine is taking 20 minutes to post, any ways, I have decided to replace the mobo with a better board form a local electronics store. Will I be able to reuse the windows 7 key that came with this machine?
I am not opposed to buying another copy but, That will stop me from upgrading a different system to win 7 32. I know that replacing my mobo will void any joke of a warranty i have left but to be honest I have shipped this pc to gateway 2 times at 70$ a pop with no help.well they did offer to sell me a replacement for 1100$
So tdlr is, If i replace mobo is factory build pc. do i need to spend another 100 bucks for a os...
I will have to buy the install disk anyways but the "new key" would sure be nice on my old laptop that's running vista now
in before dl a copy, I would like to stay legit