Short:
I've recently had to replace several bits from my HTPC and now I'm getting "Device type doesn't match" when I try to activate win10 again.
Long:
I had a Lenovo X230i laptop that had been pretty badly smashed up (Screen, chassis, etc) - but I'd recovered it to the point where I could use it as an HTPC: Remote in using my win7 Ult licence, a decent (Crucial MX200 250Gb) SSD and 16Gb RAM.... but then the case damage got to the point where the fan kept grinding - with the cost of the replacement components and what I was using the laptop for, I decided it wasn't worth spending ~£200 recovering an i3-3110 laptop... so I bought a mITX motherboard, CPU and mITX chassis (for ~£150) and now I've got a better CPU in a more convenient package...... and the idea was to keep using the existing install of win10pro, 16Gb RAM and the SSD.
BUT when I try to activate the win10 install, it just says "Device type doesn't match".... and when I go through the recommended "troubleshoot" steps on the MS site and choose "I have made significant hardware changes"... they're saying that that there is a win10pro licence bound to that outlook.com account, but it is for a Lenovo laptop and it won't let me activate it on the new motherboard and CPU.... even though those are the only parts of the computer that were still working?
Options???
Is there any way to get Microsoft to let me activate this?
I'm not paying for a new licence, so if they can't my options are either
1) to roll the install back to win7 as I should be able to move that licence over.
2) to install Kodibuntu (Linux) - I've not tried this before, but I'm reasonably familiar with Kali+Ubuntu.
3) any other suggestions?!?
I've recently had to replace several bits from my HTPC and now I'm getting "Device type doesn't match" when I try to activate win10 again.
Long:
I had a Lenovo X230i laptop that had been pretty badly smashed up (Screen, chassis, etc) - but I'd recovered it to the point where I could use it as an HTPC: Remote in using my win7 Ult licence, a decent (Crucial MX200 250Gb) SSD and 16Gb RAM.... but then the case damage got to the point where the fan kept grinding - with the cost of the replacement components and what I was using the laptop for, I decided it wasn't worth spending ~£200 recovering an i3-3110 laptop... so I bought a mITX motherboard, CPU and mITX chassis (for ~£150) and now I've got a better CPU in a more convenient package...... and the idea was to keep using the existing install of win10pro, 16Gb RAM and the SSD.
BUT when I try to activate the win10 install, it just says "Device type doesn't match".... and when I go through the recommended "troubleshoot" steps on the MS site and choose "I have made significant hardware changes"... they're saying that that there is a win10pro licence bound to that outlook.com account, but it is for a Lenovo laptop and it won't let me activate it on the new motherboard and CPU.... even though those are the only parts of the computer that were still working?
Options???
Is there any way to get Microsoft to let me activate this?
I'm not paying for a new licence, so if they can't my options are either
1) to roll the install back to win7 as I should be able to move that licence over.
2) to install Kodibuntu (Linux) - I've not tried this before, but I'm reasonably familiar with Kali+Ubuntu.
3) any other suggestions?!?