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| Thread ID: 109347 | 2010-05-04 06:51:00 | Replacing Motherboard Question | i-gordon (962) | Press F1 |
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| 882257 | 2010-05-04 11:40:00 | From the sounds of it the board was most likely faulty | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 882258 | 2010-05-06 02:45:00 | ... I see plenty of motherboards on TradeMe that will take this processor ... - chances are these older trademe m/b's are possibly faulty/unreliable. Be suspicious of old mb sold without CPU/ram (good old 'untested hardware' auctions) -just save yourself some grief & reload -when you ring MS, some techs would just say only 'I had to reload the OS' -or go to PBTech & by a good ex-lease PC for $250 (or less) |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 882259 | 2010-05-06 03:04:00 | Ironically I bought a used Asus K8N from Trademe 4 years ago, it's had almost daily use and it's still running perfectly. I also bought a barely used Asus K8V-VM which only lasted about a year of infrequent use :( |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 882260 | 2010-05-06 21:29:00 | Thanks for the replys everyone, Update. I bought an Intel D875PBZ, P4 3.2GHz.on TradeMe and reinstalled Windows. Big suprise when I reactivated online without any problem. Didnt have to ring Microsoft at all. Every thing running nicely now and faster as well. Ian |
i-gordon (962) | ||
| 882261 | 2010-05-07 00:08:00 | There is a certain period of time where the hardware ID "expires" and you can re-activate automatically with no problems (I think it is 6 months or so) This allows for the usual hardware upgrades\reinstalls etc yet prevents someone trying to activate 5 computers on different machines in the same week with the same key. |
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