The Vista installation or recovery disk you have is probably BIOS-locked
to a motherboard with an Acer BIOS.
If you can get a Microsoft installation disk - for any, presumably
32-bit, version of Vista - the key would work although you might need to
phone for activation.
On 20/11/2009 19:27, Gordon J. Rattray wrote:
> Hi there,
> I've got an Acer Aspire with Vista Basic and the motherboard died due to
> a power surge.
> It's easier for me to replace the motherboard with a new Asus unit and
> re-install Vista.
> Is this Acer installed Vista going to let me do a re-install on a
> different motherboard and will the keycode license labelled on the tower
> work with this?
> Thanks,
> Gordon
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