Once you click “Troubleshoot,” you’re taken to the troubleshooter. As mentioned, your OEM motherboard will contain a pre-installed version of Windows.
Current Board: Gigabyte B85M-DS3H Future.
If you want to run your system as UEFI, you need to disable the CSM via the motherboards interface before you install Windows.
You will come to a screen that shows whether or not your Windows is activated and the error it threw. The only time the changing motherboard Windows 10 process may require a reinstall is when you replace your OEM motherboard. I want to replace my motherboard but I'm not sure if I need to buy a new copy of Windows 10, some sites I've looked at have said yes and some no and I was wondering if I could get your thoughts. It makes the motherboard actually look like a BIOS system, allowing it to boot from NTFS and MBR disk, but you lose the UEFI features and are essentially just using BIOS. Access this by going to settings from your Start menu and clicking on “Update & Security,” then clicking on “Activation” on the left side of the window. The easiest way to get rid of this error is through the Windows activation troubleshooter. Since each Windows license is tied to your motherboard, you can sometimes confuse it by transferring it to another one. Some licenses limit the amount of PCs you can install Windows on, making things complicated for transfers of single licenses. Usually, this is an activation issue where your operating system is trying to confirm that you’re transferring the license to a new computer as opposed to adding it to another.
In some cases, the installation doesn’t go as smoothly as described above, and Windows will throw an error at you. After a day of testing, I cloned the SATA SSD to a PCIe NVMe boot drive. The SSD had Windows 10 Pro that was originally Windows 7 Ultimate retail. Tried booting with a SATA SSD from the old computer. You’ll often find that instead of booting directly to the desktop, the OS interrupts the booting process with a screen that says “Setting Up Devices.” This is Windows gathering information about your new hardware and adjusting to the appropriate drivers. Updated from an Intel i5-4670k to AMD 3700X.