Product Key (Win 7) not accepted when upgrading to 10

hawkman said:

according to your specs youve got a gigabyte motherboard, = NON OEM.
your code will never work, if its an off the shelf comp.

Would you like to explain that a little more??
Any Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 can be upgraded to Windows 10. Period.
As long as its a Legal Version of Windows.

hawkman said:

your last line says it all.
He's stated earlier tried 2 keys, Belarc + sticker, that option is only applicable to OEM comps.
Gigabyte, apart from a very few exceptions, do not supply to OEM's

Roy

Windows 10 will take OEM and Retail keys as long as their legal keys.

hawkman said:

from what you posted in the W7 forum it was an upgrade from Vista.
Built comps only have a system builder/retail key, 1 and 1 only.

post the Mgadiag on the W7 and we can tell for sure

Does not need too, as Showkey will show any and all Windows keys and display which type they are OEM or Retail keys.
Plus .....do not want this user to post His Windows key in a public forum either.....

It looks like you are trying to UPGRADE from within an installed version of Windows 7? If your Windows 7 is genuine and activated, AND you have downloaded the correct edition of Windows 10, the upgrade will not ask you for a product key at all. In Windows 7 please open an elevated ("Run as administrator") command prompt and enter:
slmgr /dlv

Please post the results here. Also run:
winver

Please post those results here. Then we can tell you what might be going wrong.

Yeah I asked him almost same thing Navy .....only difference I told him was if he was doing a clean install and not an upgrade, then I think he could not by-pass putting in a Windows key....

hawkman said:

Thats why i asked for the Mgadiag, i can tell if its an upgrade from Vista.

Roy

User does not need to run that Mgadiag at all .....I've upgraded computers that came with vista upgraded to 7, then upgraded to 10 with NO problems...