Windows 10: I bought a new CPU and now Microsoft is asking me to buy a new key for it. I have my old...

When I search through the Microsoft website, it has me log in and then says they sent me a "code" to my email. The email never arrives. Never. I checked spam folder and nothing. I've done this over and over and get the same results.

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Activate windows after new Mainboard+CPU

Hello Microsoft community,

i recently installed a new mainboard and CPU and soon i got asked to activate windows by the annoying notification in the bottom right.

now i bought a retail key which is supposed to be re-activatable but it wont let me for some reason use it anymore.

as i learned the Key is bound to hardware but im obviously not gonna revert to my old cpu+mb is there anything i can do except for buying a new key?

thanks in advance, regards

 

I bought a new CPU and now Microsoft is asking me to buy a new key for it. I have my old "Microsoft Recovery Code" but can't find anything to activate it again.

Hi. I'm Brian and I will do my best to help you.

When you bought the computer with the original motherboard and CPU, was Windows preinstalled? If it was, then the Windows license is tied to the motherboard and CPU and if you change those pieces you need a new license. I don't believe a recovery code for a Microsoft account is related to the Windows license.

 

Old windows 8.1 key -> windows 10 -> New Computer

Hello!

I bought a computer many years ago which had Windows 8.1 installed on it (this was >4 years ago). About 4 years ago, I bought a computer but I did not buy a Windows license for it, instead, I moved my 8.1 license to computer number 2. Some time later, I
upgraded to Windows 10 using my 8.1 key, this worked and I had a legit version of Windows. Now, I bought a lot of part during Black Friday and replaced everything in my computer except the hard drive and the graphics card, so it's basically a new computer.
I also bought a new SSD where I thought I'd install Windows. So I wiped my old Hard-Drive completely and installed Windows 10 on my new SSD. But I can't activate Windows on the new computer, I don't have my old key (I don't even know if I can use it to install
Windows 10) and the computer doesn't recognise "itself" since all the parts are new. Please help me, I would rather not spend more money on a new License but I have no idea what to do! I've tried to look for a digital license but since I didn't prepare it
earlier I don't have it. I can see my old computer in the list of devices connected to my Microsoft account but I can't do anything with it.

Sorry if this is confusing and there may be some grammar problems, but anyhow, thanks!