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Microsoft has locked me out of my own pc

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A similar thing happened to me recently when I swapped from a 7800X3D to a 7950X3D M$ fixed it in about 5m minutes maybe support out here in the states is better I guess.
I don't believe swapping a CPU could be the cause based on my experience, and myself not having any issue in doing so.

Did you disconnect from the internet while on first boot? If not, clean format and try again
That no longer works since MS updated to prevent that.
 
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I don't believe swapping a CPU could be the cause based on my experience, and myself not having any issue in doing so.


Yeah, it's never happened to me before either but for whatever reason it locked me out and disabled my W11 key.

Usually it takes swapping a motherboard at a min. Maybe it was a bug either way M$ fixed it pretty fast.
 
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Same chipset had nothing to do with it. I think win xp was reading in serial # and other device ID info to spot hardware changes.
XP=Change the drive and prepare for it to act like a motherboard change! You can get banned for wiping and reformatting the drive!
 
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So when I build my new rig, I'll need a fresh win 11 key? Or can I just use my old one?
 

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XP=Change the drive and prepare for it to act like a motherboard change! You can get banned for wiping and reformatting the drive!
On xp that never happened
 
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On xp that never happened
Sort of. If you went from an Intel chipset to another similar Intel chipset, XP would transfer and redetect all the needed hardware/drivers. Same with AMD/VIA/SIS. But I digress... The activation would then be triggered and you couldn't logon unless you reactivated. So in effect it kinda did.
 
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