Vista proprietary in Acer?

[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hi there,

I've got an Acer Aspire with Vista Basic and the motherboard died due to a power surge.

It's easier for me to replace the motherboard with a new Asus unit and re-install Vista.

Is this Acer installed Vista going to let me do a re-install on a different motherboard and will the keycode license labelled on the tower work with this?

Thanks,

Gordon

 

[Dominic Payer]

The Vista installation or recovery disk you have is probably BIOS-locked
to a motherboard with an Acer BIOS.

If you can get a Microsoft installation disk - for any, presumably
32-bit, version of Vista - the key would work although you might need to
phone for activation.

 

[smlunatick]

Hi there,

I've got an Acer Aspire with Vista Basic and the motherboard died due to a power surge.

It's easier for me to replace the motherboard with a new Asus unit and re-install Vista.

Is this Acer installed Vista going to let me do a re-install on a different motherboard and will the keycode license labelled on the tower work withthis?

Thanks,

Gordon

If not BIOS locked, the motherboard will no longer be an Acer so you
will be breaking the "spirit" of the OEM EULA (end-user license
agreement.) The only way is to try it out. Be advised, you may need
to use the telephone activation option instead of the on-line
activation.

 

[Alias]

Acer is a cheap, taiwanese C*AP.
If you insist on destroying American jobs and wish to send money China,
at least try Asus or Lenovo.
But better - HP.

And you think that HP computers aren't made in China?

Alias

 

[Alias]

Hellow Moron,

This was explained more than once.
1) A company registered as a tax-payer in USA & manufactures in USA
2) A company registered as a tax-payer in USA but manufactures in Asia
(usually China/Thailand).
3) A company registered as a tax-payer in Asia and manufactures in China.

Please educate yourself regarding differences.
HP is in 2nd category. Which means it creates white-collar/engineering
jobs
in USA and much money flows into US treasury.
As opposed to Acer.
But the point if someone's last name is "Cheng" and he likes to support
native country, at least buy quality.
Acer's reputation hasn't gone out of bottom in a decade.
It's like Hyundai for cars, it's improving - but so are other Asian
competitors - Asus, Lenovo.
Lenovo by the way is a spin-off if my formerly favorite US-based IBM, but
now Chinse.
So is Cisco - a formerly American company which only retains Sales
facade in
North America, but essentially a Chinese co.

This won't stop for as long as American Union retards & fat **** down South
demand 20x more money than global competition, along with benefits & such.
Instead of tightening belts & moderation they still hope to make $25/hour
for uneducated/blue-collar assembly work, whereas Chinese ENGINEER or
DESIGNER will make several times less for far more sophisticated work!!!

Aside from this, which is not the subject of posting, HP is an AMerican
company.
It pays taxes to US Treasury, period. OK?

The computers are made in China. The Chinese get paid for making them.
You're an idiot.

Alias

 

[Kevin John SmallBone]

This was explained more than once.

Yes Stan, it was explained more than once. You are an IDIOT.