Windows activation after bios update

Thanks for sharing, even though I read an assumption that other customers were not pleasant or polite... That wasn't my case.

I open 3-4 support tickets, none of them were ever receive any form of response, they were just tagged as 'solved' without any form

to contact. In my country there is only one way to contact MS support, opening a ticket and hope. No phone calls, no live chat at all.

So after I had this 'pleasant' treatment I have all the rights to be pissed off, and I never insulted any of the tech or MS personnel.

I just wrote they are unprofessional, and this is a fact in my case.

Having said that, I'm glad to read you solved your issue through the support, but that was not the case for me, and for many other customers.

The fact that MS assume you have an illegal copy of their product is beyond unprofessional, it's just insulting. I payed like many other people and we

were left alone in the moment of needs. That's another reason to be rightfully pissed off.

I'd like to write you are in good company, but in reality you are the exception. MS knows about this problem, it's over an year people complains about it. And the most common response was 'hey I assume you have a pirated copy of our product, you can solve this issue buying a legal copy of our products'

This is a joke, and customers need to know that if they face the same problem they probably will struggle a lot to solve it, and most often than not they will need to solve it by themselves. (...or burn more money buying another license)

Welcome to Bing Chat! ARGH! From the frying pan into the fire. It is all just getting worse everyday.

Full time job to fix issues that should never be issues!

I have the same issue, updating motherboard / BIOS caused my Windows to deactivate and I cannot activate it again. My license is moved from old PC I had, basing on the Win 7 or 8 key, I cannot find in any my records. I cannot activate from web, technician asks for this old key I cannot find, mentioning it won't work with Win 11.

Microsoft, seriosuly?

My MOBO is MSI Z690 EDGE DD4

This worked like a charm. Ms tech that called me went thru all the steps I already had. He found my license purchase but couldn't get it to activate. I will save this for a later use but I fear Ms will disable this to fish for more money.

Abig shout-out to @ImpliedConsent for sharing this info - saved my bacon...

ms sure wants to help move us over to Linux it seems...

Thanks again @Tanker59, @DarkoVojinovic, @Cavi Pavel, @Sinoath Buc for all your guidance and for providing what a billion $$ company will not!

Bravo to Wesley Pyburn!

We are in your debt.