After numerous bsods on my 4790K overclocking adventure I decided possibly my Win 10 Pro install was compromised or possibly had corruption.
Decided to do a fresh install of Win 10 as it was a upgrade from 8.1 Pro and was already activated which I double checked before I booted the media. Not sure what went wrong as it wouldn't activate and was spitting out the dreaded this key has been blocked error message. No keys were inputted during the install. No hardware changes. Only a bios update to the latest one the other day.
Gave up and decided to just do a fresh install of Win 8.1 Pro and start over.
At the very end of the Windows 8.1 install just before the desktop pops up for the 1st time it prompted/pimped the free upgrade to Win 10. Guessing during the install it activated itself as it found my Intel NIC.
Clicked the upgrade option as it was what I was after anyways. Seems like it saved me a decent amount of time not having to deal with all the boatload of Win 8.1 updates.
Decided to do a fresh install of Win 10 as it was a upgrade from 8.1 Pro and was already activated which I double checked before I booted the media. Not sure what went wrong as it wouldn't activate and was spitting out the dreaded this key has been blocked error message. No keys were inputted during the install. No hardware changes. Only a bios update to the latest one the other day.
Gave up and decided to just do a fresh install of Win 8.1 Pro and start over.
At the very end of the Windows 8.1 install just before the desktop pops up for the 1st time it prompted/pimped the free upgrade to Win 10. Guessing during the install it activated itself as it found my Intel NIC.
Clicked the upgrade option as it was what I was after anyways. Seems like it saved me a decent amount of time not having to deal with all the boatload of Win 8.1 updates.
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