It means the license is tied to your MS Account. When you install Windows that time, you key in your old MS Account right? That does the trick.

Chill man. New MOBO (After and around 2015) usually comes with the digital serial number which will helps to activate your OS which support DL activation. Especially if your computer origin support Windows 8.

And yes, no matter your OS installation disk does/doesn't provide the key, your OS will be automatically registered with your MOBO's DL. Nothing wrong with it and it's genuine.

FYI, the crack software/third party register for Windows Activation had lifted up to a pretty well stage, even if you pay for the online third party seller to help you activate, Microsoft won't be able to check is it genuine because of its variations mechanism of activation.


Therefore, quite lucky that you changed a DL accesible MOBO.

This post has been edited by sixguyz_jayhan: Jul 29 2022, 10:33 AM

Interesting. Mine is a digital license and returns "OA3xOriginalProductKey".