O/s mother board conflict?

[123malstrom]

HI friends
This is the first time I will be doing this. I have a HP pavallion p6257c computer 2009 manuf.

Amd quad 4 2.6 gig , 8 gig ram 4xddr2's

I have been using the board with black screen crashes for about a year or more . Best updates on gefore9100 driver.
But slots 2 and 4 are dead. Mem test check good four chips. But now The machine will no longer drive to the screen. I can put in a 2nd graphics card and get image . but It wont boot. First it was a Master boot file damage and with that repaired. A windows page on boot up and blue screen crash. every time.

Dos prompt looking around seems to show a drive with good sectors.

But I want to replace the mother board. at 170 dollars for an obsolete used / refurbished board its tough to spend. But my biggest concern is what I read on a forum that seems true.

Installing a new board will require I buy a new o/s license of windows 7 ? The factory codes wont match on the donor board to the Hard dive o/s?

Lawrence

 

[ss202sl]

The OEM license allows you to replace a failed MB with the exact same MB. If you upgrade to a different MB, the OEM OS license will have to be replaced as well(according to the terms of the license).

 

[123malstrom]

So this means that even If I do my best to match the type and "model" of my mother board to the best I can. I may still have to replace the o/S?

I mean I do see some differences in Mother board I.ds ( m2n78-la gl8e) how many flavors can there be?

Is a better attempt to assume its hard drive failure and replace the drive? will that provide problems?

 

[ss202sl]

If you already have dead slots on the MB, why would you assume it's a HDD failure.

MS seems to be somewhat lenient on enforcing the MB issue, but I can not speak for MS. The best you can do, is replace the MB, and see if the OS will authenticate. If it doesn't call MS for help, and explain to them that your MB failed, and they may allow you to use the license you have.