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Windows 10 "Activate Windows" After Motherboard, CPU, and RAM Upgrade

Operating System

Windows 10

Computer Specs (PSU, GPU, CPU, RAM, Motherboard)

PSU: Corsair - CX 500W 80 Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power SupplyGPU: MSI Nvidia GTX 960 4gbCPU: lntel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHzRAM: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000Motherboard: MSI - Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X ATX LGA1151

Speccy Link

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/85EpvijDIdKenvBnQkUTfoU

Description of problem

After upgrading my motherboard, cpu and ram, there's a message in the bottom right corner saying that I need to activate windows. I originally had an OEM version of Windows 7 which I upgraded to Windows 10 back in November. The message popped up after about 3 hours after my hardware upgrades. I've ran through the troubleshooter but it always gets an error when I try to sign into my Microsoft account.

When this issue began

About 40 minutes ago; around 3 hours after upgrading my hardware

Recurring issue

Yes

Date of purchase

I purchased my new parts 3-4 days ago

Under Warranty

No

Cause/Steps to recreate the issue

I don't know what caused this.

What I've tried so far to resolve the issue

An old thread said to put "wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey" into an admin Command Prompt, but that didn't seem to do anything at all. I also ran through the Windows troubleshooter which didn't help at all.



Submitted January 31, 2018 at 04:51AM by 03Belrose http://ift.tt/2BERQDS
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