Did I lose my Windows 10 activation?

I made the free upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I didn't use a microsoft account for the upgrade. I had a local account and Windows 10 was sucessfully installed and activated.

Now I just did a clean install, but Windows won't activate automatically.
Did I lose my free Windows 10 because I did this?

I have a m18x R2.

Joce

 

I don't think so. If you did a hardware upgrade, then you can lose it.
For now, just wait a few days, then check your activation status. My Win10 not activated immediately too.

 

You may end up losing all functionality, in which case the activation problem won't seem too serious any more. If you end up being surprised by a machine with 8 beeps that won't boot, you're going to need a new motherboard and a new LCD screen and your Windows 7 DVD to get back to normal again. I know you have AMD GPUs, but there's always a first time for everything. Are you OK with being the first example for AMD? I wish you the best of luck and hope you are able to avoid becoming a statistic as some of us have.

*** Windows 10 + NVIDIA WHQL Drivers are Killing Alienware and Clevo LCD Panels ***

 

I will wait and see then!

Before my clean install, I had no problem using Windows 10 since the day Windows 10 came out. But that scares me a bit. I guess am I still ok since I have 1 year of warranty left

Thanks for you helps!

 

I LMAO, every time I read someone say, I had no problem with win10, blah, blah, blah. Then one day, BOOOOOM, the LCD doesn't work, the PC is beeping-what wrong!?!??

 

Yeah that is why that scares me. I think I'll do a clean install of Windows 7 home or Windows 8.1 Pro and stick with one of them.

What you guys would suggest? Windows 7 or Windows8.1 Pro?

 

Either one is fine. My personal preference is Windows 7, but I'm dual booting with 8.1. There are a tiny sample of benchmarks that return higher scores with Windows 8.1, but overall my opinion is Windows 7 is the superior OS. Honestly, there is not a huge difference between them running on the desktop. Windows 8.1 contains tons of adware garbage (apps) that are essentially worthless like a smartphone OS on steroids, but if you can put up with the tiled crap (I just ignore it and disable a bunch of stuff) it's not a horrible OS.

I had no problems (other than lousy performance) with several Windows 10 Preview builds. All hell broke loose with the RTM trojan/rootkit version.

 

Hi Joce21,

Its well-known issue, i had same problem, dont call MS, they will force You to install previous Windows and perform upgrade or try to transfer You to techs and disconnect the call. Take a look on this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...on-clean-install-proper-clean-install.780020/, I am affraid its the only way at the moment to fix this stupid issue. GL&HF

 

Thanks for your information! I'll bookmark this thread.

I decided though to install Windows 8.1 and stay with it.

 

If you had Windows 10 activated before, you should be fine, unless you swap the mainboard.
It might take a couple of days for the activation to go through automatically. Or you could just spam clicking the activate button (keep clicking even when the button is greyed out and "working") until it goes through. That usually does the trick.

And Foxy, have their been cases of AMD cards killing the display as well now? My M18x-R2 with two 7970Ms is still running Windows 10 64 bit without issues.

 

I haven't seen any.