oem question

[SpeedEng66]

ok heres the rundown

I built a pc for my wife with a system build oem vista HP (a good year ago)
now she's working @ home
and she uses citrix and most of the items work but a few dont (her work place email system does not work)
so their tech support says" only windows XP pro will work with everything"

which is not a problem I have a retail xp pro that I can take from my other system. (my mame system)

but now my question is am I sol with the vista oem? (I read it's tied to the MB that I installed it on) so I guess I cant install it onto the system I took xp pro (retail) off of. correct?

 

[ViRGE]

Yes, you are SOL. Your OEM copy of Vista is tied to that motherboard and can not be installed on your other system.

 

[SpeedEng66]

danm that stinks (thanks for the reply!)

well I did this to myself, I should have bought the retal ver. of vista lol (instead of saving 40 bux)

 

[bruceb]

Why not just swap the computers or the motherboards between your pc & hers ? ?
Then you could keep Vista on your pc as it is still technically on the same computer.

 

[SpeedEng66]

Originally posted by: bruceb
Why not just swap the computers or the motherboards between your pc & hers ? ?
Then you could keep Vista on your pc as it is still technically on the same computer.

thats kinda like what im going to do (im ripping up my bartop now)
so she's gunna have 1 work pc and 1 gaming pc