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DirkaFat
By DirkaFat
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So I got a new motherboard, and I already had an oem copy of windows 7 on my ssd. I thought oem copies were tied to the motherboard, and could not be used if the motherboard is changed. But when I turned on my computer, it went straight to windows. What?

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When is windows not acting weird, am I right?

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Is it the same chipset?

No actually I went from h77 to z77.

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@DirkaFat can you look to see if windows says something like reactivate in the next 30 days. Also windows normally has 3 activation per key because of issues like installation.

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Older Machine amd x640, msi 760g mobo, 8gb gskillz, Sapphire 6870, Corsair hx650, Cooler master haf 922, ocz agility 3 120gb ssd || HTPC: i7 3770k, shuttle xpc z77, 16gb gskillz, Asus GTX 650 ti, intel 120gb msata ssd

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h77 and z77 are the "same" chipset. h77 has less features enabled than the z77. It's like you changed your graphic card from a GeForce GTX 670 to a GeForce GTX 680.

That is why Windows doesn't complain or detected something is strange. Let's say that the guys at Microsoft in charge of this, was nice when they coded this. But if abuse is taken place, be prepared that in future version of Windows, Microsoft will tight the rope.

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 can you look to see if windows says something like reactivate in the next 30 days. Also windows normally has 3 activation per key because of issues like installation.

Yeah I just checked slui.exe and there was a 3 day warning. I should've checked that first thing. Woops. I thought I was lucky :(

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Even if it goes past 3 days, all they do is disable the backround and instead it says this is an illegal edition of windows 7, nothing else!

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Older Machine amd x640, msi 760g mobo, 8gb gskillz, Sapphire 6870, Corsair hx650, Cooler master haf 922, ocz agility 3 120gb ssd || HTPC: i7 3770k, shuttle xpc z77, 16gb gskillz, Asus GTX 650 ti, intel 120gb msata ssd

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Really? Then why doesn't everyone just download windows 7 and not activate it? It would save the end user $100 on their builds...

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Really? Then why doesn't everyone just download windows 7 and not activate it? It would save the end user $100 on their builds...

Because we like our cool backgrounds :)

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Even if it goes past 3 days, all they do is disable the backround and instead it says this is an illegal edition of windows 7, nothing else!

Oh right, and if I remember correctly, windows updates are disabled if you don't activate it.

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@DirkaFat yes! I was using my machine which I forgot to activate(I hold out till the last possible minute in case one of my parts is a lemon and fails) it.

Desk: monitors 3x Asus VE248h(eyefinity), Keyboard Cm Strom Trigger(mx red), Mouse Corsair m65, Headset Audio Technica ATH-M50

Black Friday 2013 Build: i7 4770k, Gigabyte Z87X UD5H, 16gb Corsair, Msi R9 290, Corsair Axi 760, Corsair 750D, 2x intel 530 240gb ssd, 2x Seagate 400gb

Older Machine amd x640, msi 760g mobo, 8gb gskillz, Sapphire 6870, Corsair hx650, Cooler master haf 922, ocz agility 3 120gb ssd || HTPC: i7 3770k, shuttle xpc z77, 16gb gskillz, Asus GTX 650 ti, intel 120gb msata ssd

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