I bought Windows 7 Home Premium Family Pack upgrade version (licensed for use on up to 3 PCs) for use on a HTPC I was building. I managed to get it activated without having a previous version installed by 1st installing it on a second partition without activating it then installing it again on the primary partition then activating that version. This was what was recommended if you didn't have a original install of Windows for the upgrade to work with and didn't want to a double install on the same hard drive partition and the registry hack didn't work.
Anyway thanks to a bad BIOS from Intel I bricked my motherboard and had to get a new one. The old motherboard was a Intel DH67CL. My new motherboard is a Intel DZ68DB. I'm using a different CPU though they are both i5 2500k at 3.3 ghz. What I'm concerned about is using up another of my licenses when I activate the OS when using the new motherboard. Is there a way to deactivate the activation tied to the old motherboard? I have 2 other PCs I'd like to use the other 2 Family Pack licenses on.
Anyway thanks to a bad BIOS from Intel I bricked my motherboard and had to get a new one. The old motherboard was a Intel DH67CL. My new motherboard is a Intel DZ68DB. I'm using a different CPU though they are both i5 2500k at 3.3 ghz. What I'm concerned about is using up another of my licenses when I activate the OS when using the new motherboard. Is there a way to deactivate the activation tied to the old motherboard? I have 2 other PCs I'd like to use the other 2 Family Pack licenses on.
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