Unless you have a retail copy of Ultimate you will most likely not be able to activate it.
Very few people bought Retail Ultimate. They cost a ton of money.
Non Retail Windows 7 (OEM) will only activate on the original motherboard it was installed and activated the first time.
Jack
I bought the PC refurbed w/ 7 Home Prem, then bought a retail copy of Ultimate on ebay for like $100. All good.
Greetings All,
I posted this over at both the MSI and TomsHardware forums as I think it's a hardware issue but I want to make sure it's not a Windows 7 issue so I'm going to post it here in case anyone has some thoughts or ran into a similar issue in the past.
Gents,
I've run into an issue...
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