Hey community, I have a slight problem.
My friend had an old computer that had a perfectly legal copy of Windows XP SP2 installed on. The CPU and/or motherboard fried so I swapped it out for my old/new M4A78LT-M LE and Athlon II X3 440 and PQI DDR3 RAM. It loaded up fine, saw all three cores, then as soon as I tried to apply Windows updates in hopes of upgrading it to SP3, it says it is no longer a genuine copy of Windows? Any advice on fixing the mess? I would rather get it working then just buy an upgrade copy of Windows 7 rather than buy a full out full version of Windows 7 since I can get the upgrade copy through school for $30.
My friend had an old computer that had a perfectly legal copy of Windows XP SP2 installed on. The CPU and/or motherboard fried so I swapped it out for my old/new M4A78LT-M LE and Athlon II X3 440 and PQI DDR3 RAM. It loaded up fine, saw all three cores, then as soon as I tried to apply Windows updates in hopes of upgrading it to SP3, it says it is no longer a genuine copy of Windows? Any advice on fixing the mess? I would rather get it working then just buy an upgrade copy of Windows 7 rather than buy a full out full version of Windows 7 since I can get the upgrade copy through school for $30.