Need advice on how best to change hardware in Vista

I installed Vista Ultimate OEM shortly after its release, and quickly
decided to upgrade my machine as my gaming performance has taken quite
a hit - especially BF2142 on 8800GTX.

Unfortunately, since I am on the end-of-life AMD939 platform, this
means a new motherboard and memory as well as CPU. There are no
significant upgrades for 939 from a 4800X2.

>From what I understand (well after the fact), I cannot upgrade this
machine's motherboard as far as Vista is concerned, because the OEM
release will only work with the core hardware which was there upon
install.

Am I completely SOL?

If so, I will probably just reinstall XP, because I update hardware
often and cant afford disposable licenses.

XP has complained a couple times about upgrades but nothing a phone
call to MS didnt solve, as annoying as that is.

I don't believe that you will have problems upgrading, although it might
require a phone call. Search this newsgroup to see if anyone else here has
tried it yet.

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<> wrote in message
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>I installed Vista Ultimate OEM shortly after its release, and quickly
> decided to upgrade my machine as my gaming performance has taken quite
> a hit - especially BF2142 on 8800GTX.
>
> Unfortunately, since I am on the end-of-life AMD939 platform, this
> means a new motherboard and memory as well as CPU. There are no
> significant upgrades for 939 from a 4800X2.
>
>>From what I understand (well after the fact), I cannot upgrade this
> machine's motherboard as far as Vista is concerned, because the OEM
> release will only work with the core hardware which was there upon
> install.
>
> Am I completely SOL?
>
> If so, I will probably just reinstall XP, because I update hardware
> often and cant afford disposable licenses.
>
> XP has complained a couple times about upgrades but nothing a phone
> call to MS didnt solve, as annoying as that is.
>

being against the wording of he EULA is not the same thing is NOT being able to.

if necessary just call microsoft and tell them you did a few upgrades.


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<> wrote in message news: oups.com...
I installed Vista Ultimate OEM shortly after its release, and quickly
decided to upgrade my machine as my gaming performance has taken quite
a hit - especially BF2142 on 8800GTX.

Unfortunately, since I am on the end-of-life AMD939 platform, this
means a new motherboard and memory as well as CPU. There are no
significant upgrades for 939 from a 4800X2.

>From what I understand (well after the fact), I cannot upgrade this
machine's motherboard as far as Vista is concerned, because the OEM
release will only work with the core hardware which was there upon
install.

Am I completely SOL?

If so, I will probably just reinstall XP, because I update hardware
often and cant afford disposable licenses.

XP has complained a couple times about upgrades but nothing a phone
call to MS didnt solve, as annoying as that is.