Hi, I am a victim of the Vista/nF3 chipset motherboard/ATI VGA graphics card/AMD dual core CPU, mismatch problem. Of course I did not know it at the time I upgraded my CPU to an AMD dual core model. (There is no mismatch with an AMD single core CPU).
It is the fault of nVidia who have refused to issue updated AGP drivers for Vista.
Anyway, to overcome this mismatch, I have bought an ABIT AV8 VIA chipset motherboard on eBay, and now need to reinstall VISTA HP OEM onto it.
Now I am worried that I may have a difficulty re-activating my version of VISTA.
Do you think I will be able to re-activate my OEM Vista after changing the motherboard? At what point in the installation process will I become aware that there is a difficulty, and how should I go about getting Microsoft to understand that this is a genuine case of needing to change the motherboard?
Many thanks
Roy Mayo.

When you get to the activation process you will be asked whether to do this over the internet or call in to Microsoft. You will need to call into Microsoft to get the reactivation key. Pain in the butt but it will work.

"roystont5038"

Not unless you obtained that motherboard from HP; otherwise, their OEM version of the OS won't even install.

Bruce Chambers
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