![]() ![]() If a used motherboard is bought is there a way to know just by looking at it if it is licensed already for a Windows OEM COA installer? Usually not, but there is an exception. Those codes are not workstation-specific, to my knowledge.Ĭould a virgin motherboard be branded with codes from another box? Yes. The codes only come from you entering things properly from the labels on your workstation, usually on the bottom. The prior BIOS with its prior branded codes is thrown out with the failed motherboard. If you buy a virgin motherboard from HP it will be unbranded and when you enter the codes for use of Windows then it can run a HP OEM COA Windows installer on the assumption that the workstation is already licensed for running that. If the proper codes had been entered for Linux there would be no licensing fee going from HP to MS. You can't flash back and forth from Linux to Win branding. ![]() A virgin motherboard can go either way, just once, in the process. To "brand" or "tattoo" a virgin motherboard is an advanced procedure and not made easy. ![]()
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