Windows 10: Can't reactivate windows 10 after changing motherboard. Error: 0xC0EA000A

A few months back I changed motherboard in my pc. Since then my system wasn't active becouse I didn't link it to my microsoft account. Today I put the old motherboard in and and linked the activation, but when I put my PC back together and tried to activate windows I got this error code: 0xC0EA000A with a message telling me that the servers are down and to try agin later. What can i do to fix it?

I'm using Windows 10 Home 1803

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win 10 motherboard change, reactivating windows

Hi Famie,

If you are planning to change your motherboard, you will still be able to activate your Windows 10. In Windows 10 version 1607, there is a feature that you can link your Microsoft account to Windows 10 digital license on your device.
This can help you reactivate Windows using the Activation troubleshooter if you make a significant hardware change later, such as replacing the motherboard.

That being said, we suggest that you follow the steps given on this article
to reactivate your Windows 10 after a hardware change.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

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Reactivation doesn't work after a motherboard change

Hi!

I'm getting an error message 0xC0EA000A when trying to activate Windows after changing the motherboard. The PC has a Vista product key, which was then upgraded to 7 and then to 10, so I should have a digital right or what ever to Windows 10. My Windows is linked
to my Microsoft account and the reactivation worked the last time I had to swap a broken motherboard.

When the activation didn't work, I went to my Microsoft account. It showed my new computer setup (I changed the name to better identify it) and the old one. I tried deleting the old machine there but it didn't help. Did I screw up when I did that? What to do
next?

 

Motherboard change unable to reactivate Windows 10 Pro -


I have searched this topic and everything seems to be almost a year old. This is a homebuilt machine circa 2015. It started with an ASUS FM2+ motherboard with an AMD A5600K processor. It was Windows 7 Pro, upgraded to Windows 8.1 Pro then to Windows 10 Pro.
Saturday the motherboard died. An exact replacement could not be located so a Gigabyte card was installed. No changes to the hard drives. Booted the machine and Windows automatically started and then did a "revert" then installed the latest updates. C Drive was in the red so I deleted all of the old install files using Windows Clean-up. Went to reactivate, checked the significant hardware change and entered my MS account information - The computer (none of my computers) were listed and now it is telling me that I have to spend $200 to buy a copy of Windows 10 Pro.
Have not yet called Customer Support as the computer is at home and I work during the day -
I do have a disk image or two that may be a year old -

Suggestions - should I just shell out the $200 and move on

TIA