Dominic Payer replied to Gordon J. Rattray

The Vista installation or recovery disk you have is probably BIOS-locked
to a motherboard with an Acer BIOS.

If you can get a Microsoft installation disk - for any, presumably
32-bit, version of Vista - the key would work although you might need to
phone for activation.

  smlunatick replied to Gordon J. Rattray

a power surge.
-install Vista.
nt motherboard and will the keycode license labelled on the tower work with=
this?

If not BIOS locked, the motherboard will no longer be an Acer so you
will be breaking the "spirit" of the OEM EULA (end-user license
agreement.)  The only way is to try it out.  Be advised, you may need
to use the telephone activation option instead of the on-line
activation.

  Stan Starinski replied to Gordon J. Rattray

Acer is a cheap, taiwanese C*AP.
If you insist on destroying American jobs and wish to send money China, at
least try Asus or Lenovo.
But better - HP.

  Alias replied to Stan Starinski

And you think that HP computers are not made in China?

Alias

  Death replied to Alias

Alias wrote this, with guidance from inner voices:


Hehehe.
The box and label for the box was made in the USA.

--
Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur.

  Death replied...

Stan Starinski wrote this, with guidance from inner voices:


HP, like most companies and people, avoids paying as much taxes as humanly
possible.

So what about a few white collar jobs.

And, Dell is little different, moving all their manufacturing jobs to Asia
and East Europe.


How much should uneducated workers make?
Pick a number.
Remember though, in the US, a worker would be hard pressed to eek a living
out of the $1.75/hr these billionaire executives are willing to part with.

How many PCs you think they are gonna sell to people making $80/week?


Your an idiot.

--
Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur.

  Kevin John SmallBone replied...

Yes Stan, it was explained more than once.  You are an IDIOT.

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