[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Flyboy

Thanks, I'm giving that a try now.

Originally Posted by Paul

A motherboard is seen as a significant hardware change and would have triggered a new activation. It may just be that the OEM key has been used a few times by others and it has been flagged.

Originally Posted by martyh

if you change too much hardware in a pc then windows thinks it is in a new machine and will shut down .All you have to do is either activate on line ,or over the phone if it refuses to activate and fight your corner ,you have every right to upgrade your machine and re-use a legit copy of windows in it regardless of what M$ think

basically it's a microsoft scam to get you to buy another copy of windows

I will be visiting my son in law tomorrow and i will try to get to the bottom of what happened to him in case this is a new type of scam.

@flyboy

I agree with the others that the change of motherboard might have triggered this.