Keep in mind that the Windows OEM license simply ties the license to some piece of hardware that was purchased at the same time. It may be a motherboard, but it could also be a power splitter cable, a power supply, or a case screw. The latter items are not detectable by the OS yet are still valid in terms of satisfying the OEM hardware requirement. If the license applies to the machine as a whole, then just replacing the mouse or using a differen power cable would invalidate the license. Yet I can do that all day long and Windows won't care at all.

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