I am in the process of changing the motherboard in a dell 1545 & the replacement board is from a 1545 but has a 2.2ghz while the stock board has 2.0ghz will i have trouble with windows reactivating with the original windows vista installation (I dont plan on re-installing the operating system just put the old hard drive back in) ?
Laptop motherboard replacement & cpu ?
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WyomingKnott
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My guess is yes. Try it and see. Microsoft can be a little touchy about activating distributed-with-hardware licenses on a new mobo / CPU.
Also bear in mind that the drivers on the old disk may not be appropriate for the new mobo.
Also bear in mind that the drivers on the old disk may not be appropriate for the new mobo.
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