Acknowledged, and accepted - please also understand that is also my aim, and that is why I am against the use of an OEM license in these circumstances, since it is at the least a technical breach of the License terms to buy and install an OEM license for your own use, and could in theory lead to MS revoking the license and blocking the Key.
In that case your options are limited - unless you can force your vendor to do the honorable thing. Note that in the US, the FBI are responsible for counterfeit software, and the threat of bringing them into the picture can work wonders :)
These options will keep you completely legal and valid.
1) Purchase a Full Retail copy of Windows and reformat/reinstall
2) Employ a tech to install an OEM copy of Windows - they then take responsibility for Windows support.
3) Install another OS such as Ubuntu.
You should realise that the chances of MS actually doing anything about you self-installing an OEM copy are pretty close to zero - but they are not zero. If you want to go that route, then fine - but another reason that I don't recommend it is simply that your motherboard is already at least a year old, and if/when it dies, then you would also have to purchase another license for windows together with the replacement board.
I agree with this guy
Try partitioning hard drive and installing Ubuntu.
You can use wine for the window applications
Ubuntu is lightweight and fast. Although I have windows xp windows 7, and ubuntuI like Ubuntu of them all it's unique and fast. But I always go back to windows because I use it for practically everything
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