Windows OEM license to Hardware relationship.

I’m asking this question in the Hardware forum because from what I’ve read; a Windows OEM license is married to either one Motherboard, or a Hard Drive.
Is that true ? Results from searching have given me conflicting answers.
What happens if the Motherboard or C: Drive dies? would the associated Windows license be lost along with it?
One computer components store told me that qualifying for OEM no longer depends on what components you buy, or when you buy them. That conflicts with everything else I’ve read.
Note- My choice of Windows OS is Windows 7 Professional, 64 bit, SP1, OEM.

Windows activation is coupled to a number of components in your computer, mobo, CPU, boot disk, video card, memory. Up to a certain degreee components can be exchanged when they die, but when too much - in Microsoft's opinion - changes, the activation is lifted. Where those limits are, I don't know. If it happens, you can always contact Microsoft for a reactivation. I had to do that once and it was a simple matter of picking up the phone and give them a call and an explanation. Reactivation was immediately arranged.

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