Changing Motherboard

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I have an old PC that had the free copy of Win 10 on it when it first came out, so this was a PC that was registered under Win 7 originally.

The motherboard has stopped working so the plan is to put in a cheap modern board, CPU and RAM. Cost will be less than £150.

That PC does not have a Microsoft account associated with it, nor do I want one. Does this mean that when I change the motherboard its going to freak out and de-register Win10?

I also have some unused Win 7 keys that apparently sometimes work with 10.

Thing is though, if I am chasing a hopeless loser here I will just buy a copy of 10. I just don't want to buy 10 if I don't need to because it would greatly increase the cost of the PC!!

I don't want to pirate anything, but if I can transfer or do this on the cheap that will be fine. If its a chore then I will just buy a new copy of Win 10.
 
edit: sorry, didn't realise but it looks like you've already done the free upgrade from w7 to w10.

Anyway, you can pick up a windows 10 home key, legally, on key sites (google it) for about £7 and use that to activate a windows 10 home fresh install. Prior to activation, you install w10 by downloading it from ms and either putting it on a usb drive or burning it to disc.

ps, I don't know about mirroring the drive and whether that will work.
 
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Ah I think I may have found a way. Apparently a win7 code will work on Win10 as long as it hasnt been used before. I just so happen to have an unused copy of win 7.
 
Interestingly, I installed the new motherboard, ram and cpu and windows didn't even blink. It just re-registered by itself and that was that. So all that worry and in fact nothing was needed.
 
The activation on Windows 10 is a bit of a strange one, I've used Windows 7 keys in the past to activate Windows 10 sometimes Windows 10 would already be activated on other PC's I've worked on.
 
Guy's, I just updated my Mb , cpu etc,
New Mb is MSI b450 A pro max, I had windows 7 on old setup and was surised to find that MSI board will not work with windows 7.
Everything starts ok, take me to homescreen but wireless mouse won't work, probably drivers needed.
My windows 7 is an oem home premium edition,I believe I can still use the windows 7 product key to upgrade to 10.
But as I have no control of mouse and internet not setup yet...what's the best way to upgrade.....will a ps/2 mouse work?
cheers
 
heton said:
Guy's, I just updated my Mb , cpu etc,
New Mb is MSI b450 A pro max, I had windows 7 on old setup and was surised to find that MSI board will not work with windows 7.
Everything starts ok, take me to homescreen but wireless mouse won't work, probably drivers needed.
My windows 7 is an oem home premium edition,I believe I can still use the windows 7 product key to upgrade to 10.
But as I have no control of mouse and internet not setup yet...what's the best way to upgrade.....will a ps/2 mouse work?
cheers
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If you still have the windows 7 license key, you can just wipe the drive and install windows 10 using the windows 7 license key (if you don't want to link the key to a microsoft account you should do the installation without being connected to the internet and leave adding the license key until after the installation is completed and you connect it (it will try to nag you into completeing the part of the initial setup that you missed, but you can skip it) to the internet and go through the activation process.
 
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