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All my copies of Windows 7 Pro 64b were OEM.

The laptop was wiped a few years ago and I installed a copy of my Windows 7 into it. There were several issues that lead to where I am now with it. The power cord ended up being bad. Didn't know until I change the internal power cable first because the power adapter is the second one in about a year - I just didn't think it was broke so soon. So once I got the new power adapter I got the laptop up and running then websites stopped working. Some bank pages, Google, Facebook, and others were not connecting. Rebooted the router and modem, same issue. Uninstalled the adapter, reinstalled it, same issue. Couldn't figure it out so I figured I'd back it up and reinstall. In that meantime I decided to pick up an SSD for it. Found the COA key on the bottom of the laptop and tried it with my Windows 7 Pro installation. Key didn't work. I then tried my Windows 7 64 Pro installation + Key, it didn't activate. Checked Toshiba and they want 30$ for the recovery disc. Last I recall the first install had a bunch of crap installed with it. Decided to just pick up Windows 10 Pro 64b. Doing the updates now.

You've all been very helpful and I imagine I would of continued to try n get the COA CD key that came with the laptop to work we would of gotten to to work and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Home 64b

Thank you all so very much 🙂
 
Glad you got it sorted. I scored like 8 keys from MS through a special promotion for beta testers back in the day so that was 8 potential upgrades to Windows 10. The problem is I didn't really keep track of which keys were used where. And I upgraded a couple Vista laptops to 7 with those keys. I've managed to slowly go down the list and figure out what has been upgraded and what hasn't. I have just two keys left and I plan on building a new box before next July 29 (when the free deal is ending) so After that it looks like I'll be shopping for a Windows 10 license the next go-around.
 
Got everything set up and configured around 1am. Last thing I did was install Firefox, and transfer 27Gb of info from the last system, mostly pictures and email files. Rebooted, went into the Bios to change a few things cause it was running hot. F10 save. The machine will no longer boot.

The issue is probably similar to my game rig. Sometimes my game rig will boot and become unresponsive for almost a minute - absolutely nothing will work. This laptop gets past the bios and the first load sequence but never makes it to user profile, the screen just goes dark. I've let it do it's thing for almost 5 minutes and nothing.
 
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I let it do it's thing over-night and still nothing. I hit the power button this morning and it shut down. Hit the power button again and it booted up like nothing was wrong 😵 :hmm:

EDIT: Rebooted, same issue came back, *curses the sky*
 
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Puffnstuff said:
You mean right after you enter your log on information?
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It doesn't get to the log in. It passes the first part but doesn't get to the user profile log in.

So this is the 3rd fresh wipe and install of Windows 10 since you asked and the same issue keeps coming up. What it did progress to is Restarts will hang, Cold boots into windows works sometimes.


I am at the point where I am going to have to take my Windows 7 install on my game machine and use it for the laptop
 
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