So don't know if windows activation servers really down or problem on my end so I blame Microsoft for this fiasco since their activation software not smart enough to realize I just updated the motherboard bios and not entirely replaced with new motherboard! Also, if I recall they are always tweaking their activation algorithm or should I say breaking it. Wait a few minutes or try adding your microsoft account again. Except, the first few BIOS updates for this board pretty sure it didn't force me to reactivate but has for at least last 3 BIOS updates for sure.Ĭlick to expand.Yeah that's what I normally do but for the first time it's not working and all I"m getting is unable to activate windows as our servers aren't available right now. Never had this problem with any other motherboard upgrading the BIOS but this is first one with TPM so pretty sure that is the issue.Īnyways, luckily I have license digitally tied to my MS account so able to activate it that way which what I've had to do every time I update the BIOS. Then updated BIOS and TPM automatically enabled again but Windows activation state showing not active!Īlso, forces me to log into iCloud again and anything else that depended on TPM which is annoying as said before. Nope didn't work for me disabled TPM which then forced me to reset PIN when I booted into Windows to make sure it was. Looks like update just came out for my PRO Z690-A DDR4.Īlso, noticed gotta enter full microsoft account password instead of PIN to log into Windows every time I upgrade BIOS so hopefully that fixes that too since sounds related. It took maybe two minutes more time with disabling the TPM before the update.Ĭlick to expand.Thanks for the tip cuz getting really annoying having to manually activate my copy of Window after every bios update! Of course i can't say if the activation would've been disabled, had i not done this preventative measure.īut what i can confirm is, i had no issues with the activation doing it this way. There are no new devices detected or anything suspicious, it's as if i've not changed anything. The fTPM 2.0 is automatically active again:īooting into Windows. So, first step in the old BIOS, disabling the fTPM, then F10 to save & exit:īooting into Windows, running tpm.msc to check:Įxcuse the German Windows, but Win11 says "no compatible TPM found" (just as intended for this). Since i updated my BIOS today, i thought i would test the preventative measure of disabling the fTPM and booting into Windows once before the update. So that's 6-7 system changes since the install, so that probably why I had to phone MS once after a BIOS update and give them my activation key, that they then reactivated my OS, and probably why I've just got away with only having to do the "I've changed my build recently." to reactivate my OS last BIOS update. (I did skip 8 and 8.1) So from initial activation, I've added 2 SSD's, a GPU and 2/3 BIOS updates. On my current set up I believe my activation key for my Windows 11 install is a windows 7 key, or maybe even Vista as I've just upgraded from Vista all the way up to 10. So we found ourselves reinstalling windows a lot on the same PC's.) Anything after that would require phone activation or speaking to someone from MS directly. Back when I used to Fix PC's for a living, (early to mid 2000's) I'm like 99% sure you could install the licences 3-5 times with zero issue depending on the OS(we used to get a lot of the same people bringing in their PC's fully infected with viruses from P2P download programs like lime wire and share bare.
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