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Old January 16, 2013, 04:07 PM
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Over the years I've built several rigs and each have a purchased OEM W7 Pro key. One is for music playback only, a music recording rig, an everyday rig and of course a water cooled gaming rig.

The everday rig was acting strange so instead of swapping components hoping to fix it I built a new one.

So I guess I didn't follow the rules and put the W7 sticker on each case.

I know 3 for sure as I marked the W7 box but 2 I'm not 100% sure what machines they are on. I want to try and repair the old everyday machine with a new install. From what I read the OEM W7 gets tied to the mobo. Is there a way to tell what copy is where? Don't want to get arrested by the license police!

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Old January 16, 2013, 04:10 PM
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Check under system in the control panel. It should say windows is activated and give you an option for more info. Click on that and see if it has it.
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Old January 16, 2013, 07:21 PM
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If Evil's option doesn't work, you can change MBs, but when you activate it you'll be given a number and phone microsoft and just tell them your motherboard died (or whatever) so you're putting in a different one. I was using an OEM disc and switched from an ASUS to a GB MB and reinstalled and they helped me out. Maybe I just had a good customer service rep from MS though.
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Old January 17, 2013, 04:55 PM
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Thanks folks

From what I can see, in system under licence area there's a product code. The last 3 digits match the product code under the bar code on each W7 box. I'll go by that.
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Old January 17, 2013, 05:31 PM
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This is the easiest thing I've used for product keys, as it's a part of Hiren's Boot CD.

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