Asus Vivobook S400CA dead after Bios-Update

[Grisu]

Only problem after programming BIOS that Win10 dedected new hardware (probably because of different serialnumber of the board afterwards) and didnt activate.
Since about 10-1809 (or even earlier) they wont accept Win8 BIOS-key to activate Win10, this was possible before.
So I had to take another HDD to clean install Win8 which I have saved as all Win-Releases since Win7.
This suddenly activated Windows and then I still could update to Win10 with MS-Update-Tool, yes this is still working despite they said it isnt possible anymore.
When this was done I changed back to SSD with all programs on it and as laptop got a new registration with old but recognized as new motherboard it automatically activated again with SSD.

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Grisu wrote:

So I had to take another HDD to clean install Win8 which I have saved as all Win-Releases since Win7. This suddenly activated Windows and then I still could update to Win10 with MS-Update-Tool, yes this is still working despite they said it isnt possible anymore.

‘Still working’, that is great news for those still running Windows 8 and who want to upgrade to Win10 with MS-Update-Tool

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