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Mar 26, 2008

I was using my purchased Vista Ultimate just fine on my first PC. But I just upgraded the motherboard and pretty much everything else. Now it's a new PC.

So I took my Vista install CD, installed it on my new machine. Now I can't activate it. It won't let me saying it's already been activated.

I recall someone told me that Vista activation is tied to the initial hardware you install it on. Is this really the case? If so, there has to be a resolution to this as Microsoft can't be that stupid to restrict you like this. I mean how am I supposed to upgrade my fing PC!?

What do I do? I don't want to spend $60 on a support ticket. I tried to put in my PID which also now it's saying has expired!

Any help would be appreciated in terms of getting around this or how to contact Microsoft to get this crap resolved for my home PC.

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