So i bought a prebuilt PC about a year ago, and recently decided to upgrade it because the hardware was outdated for the games i play. I upgraded my motherboard, cpu, and ram. When i first booted i had a blue screen (which is irrelevant because it was a bad app) so i decided to fresh start my pc but keep my files. Once it finished, Windows booted up with my Microsoft account and files with no apps. But i noticed that in the bottom right corner of my pc has a watermark on it, even when i played games, that read:
"Activate Windows
Go to Settings to activate Windows"
So i followed the directions and went to the activate Windows screen. Once there, I clicked "troubleshoot" and it got me all the way until i clicked my pc name when it came up with a message that read:
Unable to activate Windows
We can’t reactivate Windows on this device. Try again later.
For reference I clicked "I changed hardware on this device recently."
For anyone that can help, my error code is "0xC004C003"
All I can see is my product ID meanwhile my product key is covered my X's with the last 5 digits revealed.
Yes, I have looked at the Microsoft Help Pages, and talked to tech support and nothing helped.
If ANYONE can help me with this problem, it would mean the world to me. Thanks in advance.
"Activate Windows
Go to Settings to activate Windows"
So i followed the directions and went to the activate Windows screen. Once there, I clicked "troubleshoot" and it got me all the way until i clicked my pc name when it came up with a message that read:
Unable to activate Windows
We can’t reactivate Windows on this device. Try again later.
For reference I clicked "I changed hardware on this device recently."
For anyone that can help, my error code is "0xC004C003"
All I can see is my product ID meanwhile my product key is covered my X's with the last 5 digits revealed.
Yes, I have looked at the Microsoft Help Pages, and talked to tech support and nothing helped.
If ANYONE can help me with this problem, it would mean the world to me. Thanks in advance.