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Steve Walker wrote:
If you are running W7 then a new M/B is one of the things that
might cause issues with m$soft, unless your copy of W7 was a full
retail version.

It is. But I did get a warning, which seemed to go on its own and not come
back. I was expecting to have to reinit W7.

If you had to sort it out, a call to Microsoft, explaining that your
motherboard had failed and you'd replaced it with an identical or even
similar one would get it re-licenced.

Telling them that the PSU failed and cooked the motherboard and you've
had to replace motherboard, processor and memory (with a 5 years newer
design) seems to be okay even!

When I built a second PC back in the day, I cloned the HD of the first one
to save the effort of loading in all the extra software. Didn't have a
problem then either. ;-) Even with then talking to one another.

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