Windows 10: activation fails after mainboard swap

Hi

I have recently had a mainboard failure. I swapped the board out and at the same time reinstalled Win 10 and now it will not accept my Win 10 Key what can I do ?

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Booting into Windows 10 after Mainboard Swap

My son, for some reason, charges his cell phone charge pack next to my computer and mistakenly plugged it into my computer instead of the wall charger and now my USB ports are acting up, lose connection with my S6 phone during file transfer for work. Same
cable works on another computer, stays connected, so not phone or cable, must have been the higher current draw his near dead charger put on my USB ports and took out my USB ports, doesn't matter what USB I use, none seem to maintain connection with my phone.

Using the still viable i5-2500k on a P67 mainboard and wanted to upgrade to a Z77 mainboard to resolve the USB issue and to get the better SSD support the Z77 offers over the older P67 board.

My original question was, since I have a Retail W10 installation, would the current W10 installation on my SSD post into W10 with the hardware change, add the new hardware, then just request that I re-authenticate my installation? I asked this question
in the built in W10 chat option, speaking with a rep, he claimed it would boot into W10 and just ask for a product key, and that any product key from W7 to W10 would work to get past the validation process.

My concern was since this PC was built in 2008 or so, I no longer have the case with the W7 sticker, I had paid for the online upgrade to W8, migrated to W8.1, and took the recent updates to W10, so I am unsure what key I used 8 years ago, or what key they
may have given me for the W8... So will try what others suggested here and try the support again, I took screenshot of the full licensing, via the command prompt method, showing I belong to Retail channel and a copy of all the IDs associated with my current
installation, he liked I had done this step. I recommend anyone reading this to try that too, that command was on another thread here, under similar topic.

If this i5-2500k wasn't such a champ I would upgrade the entire system, but have been side by side with other newer models and I could not discern any RW performance gains in the tasks I do for my work or play so an under $100 repair is my best option. Sure
newer devices boot faster but once in W10 the same limitation hit both systems, network bandwidth, etc,.

QUESTION: Has anyone with retail W10 tried a motherboard swap and did your computer post or were you forced into performing a clean install? People will recommend clean, but I have lots of work related software loaded such that it would takes days on end
to get all the softwares back onto this machine if clean was needed. I will run BelArc Advisor just in case before the swap, but again, just looking for comments from those who have tried a mainboard swap with Retail W10, thanks...

 

Windows 10 fails to update


When you finish testing the Avast suggestion, make sure that you restart your machine.

Then if the issue persists, please return to the trouble shooting list in post# 89

I think there are three steps that remain; the WU troubleshooter, reset WU components, and manual WU reset.

 

What kind of quad.

I suspect you are at "the edge" of the power rating for the mainboard. Perhaps Q6600 wasnt listed due to TWO versions, C3 stepping at 105W and G0 stepping at 95W. Furthermore, if you OC the G0 Q6600 then it will use more than 95W. Since Q9300 is on a 1333 buss, then perhaps the BIOS doesnt give you scope to OC it, keeping it well withing the 95W envelope.

My suggestion is, if the mainboard is important to you and you dont want to blow the power regulators or caps, to NOT OC the Q6600. Take the thing out of design spec (by OC'ing it) and you may very well rapidly reduce the half-life of your board.

Also, as erocker suggests, there are 65W quads out now. I think those are better suited to this mainboard.

Good luck.