Windows 10: Bios update deactivated windows 10 and I can't reactivate it.

I have an MSI 560B tomahawk wifi mobo I recently updated my bios to the latest one, after the update windows asked me to re-enter my pinwhich it always did with this particular mobo after every bios update and I had to re enter my microsof account info. After doing that I realized my windows wasn't activated and after a couple of attempts of clicking "activate" I wasn't able to do it. I was able to successfully activate my windows back when I switched from my old msi gaming m7 to the current one.I've been using my old windows 7 licencesince upgraded to win 10 for the last 10 years or so. I

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windows 10 deactivated how to reactivate

My grandson somehow deactivated windows 10. I have a refurbished Dell that came with windows 7. I had updated to windows 10 when it came out. I have a product code for windows 7. what option do I use to reactivate windows?

 

MSI 5870 BIOS Update

Still can't reproduce. Could you please post the exact BIOSes that produce the issue?

 

BIOS Update - Windows Activation

Hello,

I have Windows 10 installed on my PC and I want to update my BIOS to the latest version because of performance benefits to Ryzen CPUs. However, I am worried that Windows will deactivate because it will consider it as a hardware change.

1. Is it 100% certain that windows gets deactivated after BIOS updates even though I didn't change hardware nor PC.

2. Is there any easy way to prevent this or reactivate Windows without going through phone support?

3. If I link my Windows activation to a microsoft account, is it guaranteed that I will be able to reactivate Windows?

4. Why the windows support article https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20530/windows-10-reactivating-after-hardware-change doesn't cover my problem??

Thank you!!!