New motherboard.. do i need to buy windows again?

[Guest]

I bought a prebuilt PC a while ago with windows 8 already installed and now i am planning to upgrade my motherboard & CPU. However I was wondering if I would have to buy Windows again or if I can just use the media creation tool to make a USB flash drive with an installation file to install windows instead having to buy it again.

 

[USAFRet]

With an OEM license key, you can't get the ISO from Microsoft and then use that to generate a USB install. They expect you to get that from the manufacturer.

And whatever you get from the manufacturer probably won't work with a whole different motherboard.

Finally, the OEM license is indeed tied tot hat original motherboard.

You're basically building a new system. Time for a new OS.

 

[mamasan2000]

New system, new OS. Windows 7
Windows 10 OEM is tied to mobo.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2079682/windows-oem-full-version.html

Read SR-Blackbirds post.