IQ504 hard drive fail, windows wont install!

I finally had my HD fail. Vista home premium 64 bit. I purchased new HD and bought discs from HP. It gets almost to the end of installing windows and then says "windows setup cannot configure windows to run on this computers hardware". I have called Microsoft and HP. Microsoft says the discs won't install the OS, HP says its a motherboard issue. Will a clean install with a new OS disk work? I'm thinking of just purchasing a new OS for the computer, or will the "tattoo" of the motherboard prevent this? How do I check the motherboard? Anyone have any ideas where to go from here?

Hi:
Try this method to make your own Vista installation disk and use the product key on your PC to activate.
If you can read your 25 character MS product key, you can make your own Windows Vista installation disk. Just download the 3 files you need at the link below, and read all of the instructions to create a bootable DVD installation disk using imageburn.
Just disregard the part of the text under the first screen shot about extract the files to the Vista folder. The files were already extracted to that folder when you ran the X14.exe file by reading the test on top of the first screen shot.
The other thing I noticed is on the 4th screen shot, where it shows Developer ID Microsoft Corporation. I had to type Microsoft Corporation in myself, and then the other codes automatically populated.
When I went to compile the ISO file, ImageBurn gave a message that about a WIM file and ISO, and if I wanted to burn it in a different format.
I selected No, make the ISO file.
It was not that hard to do. I burned both the 64 bit disk and the 32 bit disk in case I ever need them.
I tested both of them (just short of going ahead with the actual install) and they appeared to work perfectly.
Apparently when you enter the product key, it knows what version of Vista you have.
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/software-os/w/microsoft_os/3317.2-3-microsoft-windows-vi...
After you successfully install vista, you can then visit your PC's support and driver page and install the drivers you need.
Paul

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Hellooo Everyone This is sort of a last ditch effort to see if I can fix this myself or if I am going to have to shell out 500 dollars to get my laptop back in working order. So I have a HP dv6-6140 laptop. A few weeks ago the hard drive failed and I purchased and installed a new one, ran windows 7 and have it on my laptop. When I try to hook up an ethernet cable to download and install the drivers for the laptop the ethernet cable is not recognized it says no internet connection blah blah blah. Ok so I downloaded the drivers to a flash drive and installed some of them onto my laptop, no changes. So I was thinking of purchasing the recovery discs which im assuming include the drivers for the notebook for 35 dollars which is paltry in comparison to what I would pay if I took it to a computer repair shop, but how do I know that would work? I dont. I am looking for ideas or anything that I may be missing. I am not computer illiterate but I am not an expert. Any advice would be greatly appreciated Thanks!
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On your model normally it is very important to install the chipset driver first and reboot before attempting to install the ethernet (wired network) driver.
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http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/chipset?os=Windows%207%20-%2064
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