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Win 7 Motherboard Upgrade - OEM Licence help
Hey there,
I got this PC a year or so ago, and I am about to upgrade the Motherboard, CPU and RAM for it. I've read around that my previous OEM licence (That I've used every time I've needed to do a fresh install on this PC and worked fine) will no longer work with the new motherboard.
I would like to know what exactly it is that ties the motherboard to the OEM key. Is it the MAC code, or the Serial Number of the Motherboard. I don't think that's all of it, since people said you can use the same model motherboard and it will activate fine.
My PC is OEM from a very small local PC builder (so not Dell, HP etc).
Thanks.