Well, I'm finally upgrading the pc I built 7-8 years ago, have an i5-7400 coming along with motherboard and ram. Anyway, I picked up an ssd for the first time as well. My plan is to replace the mobo, cpu and ram first and get them booting with my current hdd, then unplug it and hook up the ssd and install windows. I have an oem win 7 64 disk that I originally used for this pc.
Will there be any licensing issues doing this? I've heard the license is tied to the mobo, which I'm changing. What about the old copy of Win 7 on the hdd? I won't be using it any more, do I need to do something to transfer the license?
Also, with the new processor, I assume I'll have to update the bios on the motherboard, which I've never had to do. Anything I need to know for this? It will at least boot into bios even if the current bios isn't optimized for Kaby Lake right?
Thanks for any help.
Will there be any licensing issues doing this? I've heard the license is tied to the mobo, which I'm changing. What about the old copy of Win 7 on the hdd? I won't be using it any more, do I need to do something to transfer the license?
Also, with the new processor, I assume I'll have to update the bios on the motherboard, which I've never had to do. Anything I need to know for this? It will at least boot into bios even if the current bios isn't optimized for Kaby Lake right?
Thanks for any help.
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