Note: I had previously upgraded for free from Windows 7 to 10, but I hadn’t signed into an administrator account on the PC with a Microsoft account. When the motherboard arrived I installed it, but I decided to use same hard drive and didn’t perform a clean install of Windows 10. I ordered exactly the same motherboard model. I killed the motherboard in my HP Compaq dx7500 computer! It was a simple mistake, but eventually I gave up trying to fix the motherboard and ordered a replacement. This is just a blog post sharing my recent experience. Note: If you’re in a similar position, I’m not informing you that you will have the same experience/result as me.
I am not able to contact this person again, and I do not know how to locate the manufacturer.This blog post is about when I replaced a faulty motherboard and how I dealt with a Windows 10 error and product key activation. This is a gaming computer that I purchased second hand from a person, not a retailer. Do re-activations count as complete activations as though i was activating on a different machine? If that is the case, every "activation" has been used up when I would have to reactive this computer after a few hard drive wipes. I still am at a loss why this is happening. The representative told me that my Windows key had reached it's activation limit and I would have to contact the manufacturer to increase the activation limit, or buy a new key. I gave up on online chatting and called the support phone line. My suspicion is he closed the ticket after restarting my computer. I received an email identical to the one I received when I completed my chat with the first technician. The second technician restarted my computer while in control of it while trying to solve the problem (same as the first technician), and never returned to take control. He did not tell me why it was blocked, and ended our chat before I could ask more questions.
The first one told me my activation code was "blocked" and advised me to buy a new key. I have chatted with two Microsoft technicians through their support site. However, it fails to activate, and I get the error code 0x803FABBA. After going through the activation troubleshooter and selecting that I have changed hardware, it recognizes my computer, and I select it and tell it to re-activate. After setting up all of the new hardware and firmware, I am unable to re-activate Windows. I recently changed motherboards in my computer.