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Formatting question wanna be sure !?

  • 03-07-2006 8:24pm
    #1
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭


    ok heres the deal... Bought a pc around 3 years ago (advent) lost the cds as you do (or maybe just me)

    Then found a site that has the reformat cds got them formated every half year... grand

    Then one day the genius that I am decided to try and take my pc apart...............................................

    Broke my motherboard........................................

    3 months and like €300 later got it fixed with a new motherboard finally...................................:D

    Now its a different motherboard to the old one and im just curious could I use the same cd as the last time....?

    I need to be 10000000000000000000000000% sure I can do this dont wana break it again ! :D;)

    Thanks for any replys !

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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Very dotty there. I guess you can use the same CD (I assume the OS and some software is on those). You probably got a different CD with the motherboard with drivers for that (onboard sound, usb, etc)


  • #3
    snappieT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    Ooh, I'm not so sure Windows activation will like a new mobo. Unless the CD was aquired from an "alternative" source.


  • #4
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    It's not Windows activation that's the problem. If the CD you're talking about is the recovery cd that the OEM's provide (like Dell's one) it checks the BIOS to make sure that it is a Dell PC. New motherboard = new bios.


  • #5
    dazftw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    Macros42 wrote:
    It's not Windows activation that's the problem. If the CD you're talking about is the recovery cd that the OEM's provide (like Dell's one) it checks the BIOS to make sure that it is a Dell PC. New motherboard = new bios.

    So your saying it probably wont work ?

    I dont mind I just wana make sure.. If I can do it I will, If I cant I dont mind

    Rather be safe than sorry !

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  • #6
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    There's someone on the forum can get ya an Arabic copy of windows on the cheap........lol


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  • #7
    steveland?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,842 ✭✭✭steveland?


    If the problem is that it'll check it's an Advent PC (which is very unlikely, I'm on an Advent laptop now and it never mentions the brand in the BIOS and doesn't seem like a company that would... they don't even have a website) then can't he use another OEM version, like one from a Dell, of either home or pro (depending on the licence he has) and ring the activation hotline and tell them the story and get it activated?


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