Hi All
Just recently I replaced the motherboard on my HP Probook 6555b laptop and had a concern that Windows would not activate and to my surprise it did without me having to enter any license key.
Reading various articles about Win 10 activation and adding new hardware I would have assumed that because it was a new motherboard I would have issues with activation, but this wasn't the case.
So it would appear that Win 10 activation is not tied to the motherboard so how was I able to activate without any issue?
Not that I'm complaining as I'm quite surprised that it worked just curious if anybody could through any light on it
Cheers
Ged
Time will tell whether you stay activated. If you changed a motherboard and are not using a retail windows 7/8/8.1 version then you shouldn't of been activated
Hi All
Just recently I replaced the motherboard on my HP Probook 6555b laptop and had a concern that Windows would not activate and to my surprise it did without me having to enter any license key.
Reading various articles about Win 10 activation and adding new hardware I would have assumed that because it was a new motherboard I would have issues with activation, but this wasn't the case.
So it would appear that Win 10 activation is not tied to the motherboard so how was I able to activate without any issue?
Not that I'm complaining as I'm quite surprised that it worked just curious if anybody could through any light on it
Cheers
Ged
If that new motherboard came from HP as an exact replacement the identification of it may be in the Microsoft database and was recognized.
It probably has a Windows 8 product key stored in bios, which can be shown by running Showkey from this forum:If that new motherboard came from HP as an exact replacement ,,,.
Solved Showkey - Windows 10 blog
Windows build 10586 will activate based upon Windows 7/8/8.1 product keys either provided by the user or stored in bios (Windows 8).
Well it's been 5 days now and still activated and no it didn't have a Windows 8 key in the bios, the laptop had originally Windows 7 installed, fresh install of Windows 8 when if was going cheap and then upgraded to Windows 10.
going cheap = Retail Windows license ( ie Transferable license)fresh install of Windows 8 when if was going cheap
Exactly, I have 3 of them and you're right with transferable license .going cheap = Retail Windows license ( ie Transferable license)
