Vista Business & Hardware Upgrading

[Lord Quake]

Hello,

I am about to roll out Vista Business on my System as a clean install.
I dont want to upgrade any hardware now as it was all done about 6 months ago. But by the Summer i will want a new AMD mainboard, the new FX chip and probably a new Nvidia card as well to cope with things like Bio-Shock.

My question is, how would one best go about upgrading the mainboard etc on a system already fully installed running Vista and what is likely to happen?

Would it be better to do the full upgrade now befor i put Vista on bearing in mind i've got a fast system now?

Also i have a lot of USB hardware, like Trackpoint head trackers, Fingerprint Scanners, Logitech G25 to name a few. Are all of these going to be OK in Vista?

Thanks, in advance.

[dogdude16]

if you have an oem version of vista, it can only be installed with one mainboard and thats it for that copy. If you have a retail version then i think all you have to do is repair vista once you put in your new motherboard.

make you there are vista drivers for your video card

[Lord Quake]

I will be using the compnay's MSDN account, we have 100 keys available for Vista Business.

[glc]

if you have an oem version of vista, it can only be installed with one mainboard and thats it for that copy.

This is apparently no longer true.

[Lord Quake]

With XP you could just replace the mainboard, reboot, and hope that it didnt BSOD, if it didnt then it woud need reactivating only.

Whats the procedure with Vista? I won't be using the retail version, it's whatever is on MSDN. We have a VLK for use on site and then up to 100 individual keys for staff use at home. I have two or three of them.
I was hoping to install Vista, then upgrade the H/W later in the year. I expected Vista to need reactivating but my bigger concern was how it would cope with the new Hardware once it was restarted. Is it likely to crash?

[glc]

I haven't heard anything that would indicate it's any different than XP - which at worst requires a repair reinstall. I may be totally wrong here - just taking an educated guess.