I have Vista Ultimate installed on my home computer, and I was looking to
upgrade the motherboard and CPU of said computer. Here's my question: if I
do upgrade the motherboard/CPU, does Vista/Microsoft recognize that as an
entirely "new" computer? The EULA says that my copy of Vista can be
installed on a second machine, provided that I do not have it installed on
the first machine at the same time (as per my understanding); if Microsoft
sees my upgrade as an entirely new machine, although it is physically still
the same computer case and mostly the same components, then have I basically
used up my two installs on one machine? Your thoughts on the matter.

After upgrading and reinstalling simply reactivate by phone and explain
what you did.....No problem......Just my 3 cents
"lpants53" <lpants53@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5A1F16D9-141D-4C15-8976-4C6A12215DC8@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I have Vista Ultimate installed on my home computer, and I was looking to
> upgrade the motherboard and CPU of said computer. Here's my question: if
> I
> do upgrade the motherboard/CPU, does Vista/Microsoft recognize that as an
> entirely "new" computer? The EULA says that my copy of Vista can be
> installed on a second machine, provided that I do not have it installed on
> the first machine at the same time (as per my understanding); if Microsoft
> sees my upgrade as an entirely new machine, although it is physically
> still
> the same computer case and mostly the same components, then have I
> basically
> used up my two installs on one machine? Your thoughts on the matter.[/color]

"lpants53" wrote[color=blue]
>I have Vista Ultimate installed on my home computer, and I was looking to
> upgrade the motherboard and CPU of said computer. Here's my question: if
> I
> do upgrade the motherboard/CPU, does Vista/Microsoft recognize that as an
> entirely "new" computer? The EULA says that my copy of Vista can be
> installed on a second machine, provided that I do not have it installed on
> the first machine at the same time (as per my understanding); if Microsoft
> sees my upgrade as an entirely new machine, although it is physically
> still
> the same computer case and mostly the same components, then have I
> basically
> used up my two installs on one machine? Your thoughts on the matter.[/color]

Assuming it's a retail license, there should be no problem with this. You
will need to activate again. If it doesn't go through online, then do the
phone activation.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]