Change your boot order and boot your windows.

Change motherboard windows 10. If you make significant hardware changes on your device, such as replacing your motherboard, windows will no longer find a license that matches your device, and you’ll need to reactivate. In the uefi setup screen, set uefi mode to legacy mode (or disable uefi, or set it to bios. Make the changes in your system registry.

Type “regedit” and press enter. When you replace the motherboard, most advice is to use the activation troubleshooter, in truth that rarely works, your best option is to contact microsoft support and. Here, you can use it to perform a restore after changing cpu and motherboard without reinstalling windows 7/8/10.

I have just built a desktop and used a system builder w10 pro 64 to install and activate. Hi mark, since you have a retail licence, that does have transfer rights to a new motherboard or pc. Generally, an end user can upgrade or replace all of the hardware components on a computer— except the motherboard —and still retain the licence for the original microsoft.

However, please take a closer look for. Replace the gpu, if you have one. Install it with the reverse process:

Motherboards with similar feature sets from different manufactures tend to price within $10 of each other. A great (if slightly risky) way to save money on a new motherboard is. Click on update & security.

Under the windows section, click. In any case, you can most likely continue. To change motherboard without reinstalling windows 10/8/7, there are three methods for you to choose.