Hello, my Windows 10 has been freezing randomly with no blue screen and no event log. I haven't found any discernible pattern in the crashes, whether I am gaming, drawing, or browsing the web, and I have tried updating drivers.
For some reason it isn't allowing me to activate Windows, could this be part of the issue?
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Yes. Probably the huge reason why.
Questions :
1. How long ago since you have this "not activated" Windows 10 ?
2. Which Windows 10 version do you have. Windows 10 Proor Windows 10 Home?
3. Before this, what Windows operating system was the computing running ?
Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 ? Was it activated back then ?
Well, I have always had this not activated Windows 10 since I upgraded back in October of last year.
I'm running Windows 10 Pro and upgraded from Windows 7.
I am surprised you are still able to use a Win 10 system which has not been activated since October last year.
What Windows 7 version you had. Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate ?
I had Windows 7 Ultimate. Before my hard drive crashed in October and I had to go to Windows 10.
Did you replace with a new hard drive after the old one crashed ?
Was motherboard replaced as well ?
I replaced the hard drive, but didn't replace the motherboard until a week ago when I upgraded most of my hardware.
Why couldn't you activate Windows 10 Pro ?
You do have Win 7 Ultimate product key, do you ?
I really do not know. I tried the key I had but it didn't work, I tried calling support but they wouldn't help me after I explained my situation. I even tried to become a insider to get an insider build but that didn't help activate it either.
Is that same Win 7 Ultimate key in use on another computer ?