On 14/01/2024 in message <
l0iok2...@mid.individual.net> Jaimie
Vandenbergh wrote:
>>I hadn't quite seated the NVMe properly, always a bit wary as the
>>electronics are exposed. Anyway Win 8.1 has gone on from a DVD with an
>>unused key, will see if it activates later, MSFT have tightened up
>>substantially on activation.
>
>Nice - the old win8 activation hasn't been changed AFAIK so should be
>fine. It's only the last Win10/11 releases since December where the old
>keys won't work now.
I had an original OEM DVD (never used) and the original sticky label with
the key and it refused to activate so I went through my list of licences
until I found one that worked. I had forgotten that if the original
version was US English you had to use a US English key and if it's UK
English UK English key. Even downloading a new iso today it was quite
picky about language and bitness.
I will try and find a way to get to MSFT to ask about the OEM DVD, I
thought if you had the original DVD and the original label you were OK. I
think also where you could get away with going back to an 8.1 key that has
been used to upgrade to Win 10 (even on the same machine) in the past you
can't now.
Anyway it's up and running nicely on the Z170-K, I need to think about the
new build which may be Win 10 only but I will try for my own satisfaction.
I'll use an old install thumb-drive and work my way through updates until
I get to the one where control of updating was lost.
Keeps me out of mischief :-)
--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do or
say nothing. (Edmund Burke)