Bingo, the first link you write works (i have just tried to phone, and now it is a ladys voice, guiding you through the activation.

Changed motherboard activate windows 10. The first device shows the new correct details and that it is. How to reactivate the windows 10 operating system after a hardware change. Prepare your windows 11 device for a hardware change first, follow these steps to find out if windows 11 is already activated.

After you’ve installed the new motherboard, you’ll need to log in with your microsoft account and sign in to your new windows 10 pc. I changed the motherboard, cpu and ram. Instead of providing product key they have added the product key in the motherboard.

If i only had known this number saturday morning, i. After changing the hardware, i can't activate windows 10. This opens the settings app.

(you can also find this from settings,. To ensure reactivation happens successfully after a hardware change on windows 10, use these steps: If windows 10 will not activate after installing a new motherboard and you upgraded to windows 10 via windows 7 or 8/8.1, you can attempt to activate windows 10 on the new.

Click on update & security. So, when you change the mother board the product key would not get detected with the new mother. Select the start button, then select settings > system >.

Both the same name (the name includes the new motherboard type) so both must have been altered since 2 days ago. You’ll see a message saying “windows is not activated”.