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Anyway...

nick hoffman — 4/18/2007 2:13:40 PM (archived)

Your OEM installation is hardware specific and will generally NOT work on a different machine with different hardware config. This is NOT a simple driver issue but a more fundamental architectural "feature".

You can perhaps re-install your OEM installation on a close clone (if you can get round licence key "pungi-traps"), but probably not on any radically different machine.

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Vista - S - 4/16/2007 9:51:10 PM
- End Game - Trojan Horse Declined - S - 5/2/2007 4:33:14 PM
- Lightwave on Vista? - McFly - 5/2/2007 2:37:14 PM
  - re: Lightwave on Vista? - S - 5/2/2007 4:39:54 PM
    - re: Lightwave on Vista? - McFly - 5/2/2007 5:25:12 PM
      - Lightwave on Vista? - S - 5/3/2007 7:20:36 PM
- re: Vista, woe unto us! - RNE - 5/1/2007 5:22:40 PM
  - Your plan - S - 5/2/2007 7:46:19 PM
- Vista: Barred Windows in a Brick Outhouse - S - 4/26/2007 5:31:02 PM
  - re: Vista: Barred Windows in a Brick Outhouse - Yeti - 4/29/2007 11:39:22 PM
    - Ditto - S - 5/2/2007 4:42:02 PM
  - My adventures with the last XP Gateway box - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/27/2007 7:33:32 AM
    - Vista - Steve R - 4/28/2007 11:56:37 PM
      - Windows sound in mid-2006 - S - 5/4/2007 5:47:22 PM
      - Amen - S - 5/2/2007 4:43:18 PM
    - re: adventures with Gateway - S - 4/27/2007 6:12:25 PM
  - Link to Peter Gutman's article - S - 4/26/2007 5:39:54 PM
    - Well.... - S - 4/27/2007 5:31:38 PM
- Misadventures on the road to success with Vista - S - 4/24/2007 10:50:51 PM
- Notes on Audio; update on Photopaint; more... - S - 4/20/2007 8:57:36 PM
- HP laptops - FrankC - 4/19/2007 7:54:58 PM
  - re: HP laptops - S - 5/3/2007 7:16:55 PM
  - re: HP laptops - S - 4/19/2007 10:05:24 PM
- correction - AMD gets the flame, not Intel. - S - 4/16/2007 9:57:56 PM
  - why not just install XP on the new machine from your laptop's install disks? (n/t) - SDG - 4/16/2007 11:04:09 PM
    - Install disks? - S - 4/17/2007 1:31:40 AM
      - nothing wrong with installing your exisitng XP on a new box - SDG - 4/17/2007 3:29:13 PM
        
        MS on OEM Windows transferral - S - 4/17/2007 11:53:05 PM
        
        installing OEM applications - FrankC - 4/19/2007 8:07:03 PM
        
        OEM sucks. - TB - 4/21/2007 4:45:35 PM
        
        XP - McFly - 4/25/2007 5:24:41 PM
        
        Anyway... - nick hoffman - 4/18/2007 2:13:40 PM
        
        re: Anyway... - S - 4/18/2007 9:33:14 PM
        
        More... - S - 4/17/2007 11:25:17 PM
        
        I've been facing similar issues - McFly - 4/18/2007 2:52:13 PM
        
        Similar issues - S - 4/18/2007 9:56:34 PM
        
        Jerry Pournelle's opinion - TB - 4/21/2007 4:49:48 PM
        
        re: Jerry Pournelle's opinion - S - 4/24/2007 10:25:13 PM

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