[floppybootstomp]

Mr Abarb, I daresay if you looked on the MS site you'd find a relevant phone number but I've never made a note of it.

Have you never encountered the phone line activation before then? It's a complete PITA but it works.

Just install a previously installed Windows OEM disk and it will have a look at your hardware and assuming you're online offer you a choice to pay for it all over again or phone a number which it supplies. It is an 0800 number, freephone, in fairness.

You then have to copy and enter about a zillion numbers, get just one wrong and you're fubar'ed. Get it right and you have Steve Bullmer's blessing and your Windows Operating System becomes legal and is activated.

I done it twice recently with two of me daughter's laptops, used my OEM copy of Vista and their Toshiba laptops' install codes. Most laptops usually only give you a rather worthless recovery disk so this is the best way to do a fresh install in my experience.

[Abarbarian]

Never tried the service but I may do so in the future as I'm due to re jig some pcs shortly.

[muckshifter]

If you actually get to speak to a real person, just tell them you installed a new hard drive.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950929

http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/e...n-centers.aspx

I don't know, or actually care, what OEM's licencing 'rules' are, but I do know I have never been refused moving any of my OEM Windows to another / revamped PC


Now, back on topic.

[floppybootstomp]

Originally Posted by muckshifter

Now, back on topic.

Well at least the thread starter should have their mind put at rest about OEM versions of Win 7 64 Bit

[Abarbarian]

Thanks for the phone numbers Mucks.

[Bosing]

Originally Posted by floppybootstomp

Well at least the thread starter should have their mind put at rest about OEM versions of Win 7 64 Bit...

Certainly. That's great, thanks.

[Bosing]

This will probably be the dumbest thing unearthed on the forum, but here goes..

I have an old MSI Graphics card lying around from an old rig, and was thinking of popping it into my current machine, hoping that it might help in the slightest way for gaming performance.

I think it's a "MSI V064" (least that's what the numbers say on the card). I'm not sure about motherboard compatibility - if the card itself will actually fit into my board, (honestly, I wouldn't really know what to look out for, apart from if it fits like a lego piece).

I think my motherboard was posted on the threads first page; I'm assuming this is what it is... (ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2A-VM HDMI 1.XX Bus Clock: 200 megahertz). Well, I hope this is right.

Here is the card itself: http://s8.postimage.org/ddb36rtj9/MSI_V064.jpg

Thanks again - best.

[Bosing]

Originally Posted by Bosing

This will probably be the dumbest thing unearthed on the forum, but here goes..

I have an old MSI Graphics card lying around from an old rig, and was thinking of popping it into my current machine, hoping that it might help in the slightest way for gaming performance.

Pretty dumb. Found the answer via a couple of Google searches relating to SLI functionality. Anyway, better put the sledgehammer to that old junk.