old vista on new mobo and cpu

Posted: 09-11-2007, 03:17 AM

Earl Dunham

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I have Vista premium installed on an old mobo with a pentium 4 3.0, To
improve performance I have aquired a new motherboard and dual-core
processor' can I move the vista on the hard-drive, the video adapter, modem
and memory, to the new mobo and cpu ? will I have to do a clean install?
will I have problems with microsoft?

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Carey Frisch [MVP]

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Re: old vista on new mobo and cpu

Posted: 09-11-2007, 03:33 AM

Your system will boot to a blue screen (stop error) because
you have a totally different motherboard. You can try a
repair procedure and see if that works; otherwise a clean
install will be required. Choose the option to activate
by phone if you cannot successfully activate via the internet.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Earl Dunham" wrote:

I have Vista premium installed on an old mobo with a pentium 4 3.0, To
improve performance I have aquired a new motherboard and dual-core
processor' can I move the vista on the hard-drive, the video adapter, modem
and memory, to the new mobo and cpu ? will I have to do a clean install?
will I have problems with microsoft?

Rick Rogers

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Re: old vista on new mobo and cpu

Posted: 09-11-2007, 11:14 AM

Hi Earl,

Unless your version was OEM, you should have no trouble activating it on the
new hardware. You will have to do a repair install however unless the
hardware is very similar (which I suspect it is not, otherwise what would be
the purpose?).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Earl Dunham" <earld2@msn.com> wrote in message
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>I have Vista premium installed on an old mobo with a pentium 4 3.0, To
>improve performance I have aquired a new motherboard and dual-core
>processor' can I move the vista on the hard-drive, the video adapter, modem
>and memory, to the new mobo and cpu ? will I have to do a clean install?
>will I have problems with microsoft?

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