Can I reuse Vista if I upgrade my case?

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They have case drivers on the same website as blinker fluid, board
stretchers and striped paint.
 
You hit a bug, that's all. About a year ago there was a bug that caused a
few folks to have to reactivate for simply upgrading a driver. No hardware
involved at all but the software mistook a driver change for a hardware
change. That apparently got sorted.
 
wme1221 said:
I have a prebuilt HP computer that came with Vista home Premium installed.
The airflow in the case isn't what I want it to be, but I like everything
else. I'm thinking about moving the whole nine yards to a bigger case with
room for a couple more fans. I'd like to avoid the expense of buying an
operating system I already have, tho. If I reuse the same motherboard, won't
I be OK from a licensing standpoint?
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Well, just make sure the motherboard screws only make contact where they
should and assuming HP follow the standard all should be well. You are
not changing anything so Vista should not know or care what case it is
in, but of course you will be stepping out of any warranty you may have.
Vista will usually only detect major changes like CPU, Motherboard, the
kinds of things that might indicate you had (for example) cloned your
drive and tried to use that in a different machine.
 
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