Do you think, that even though this is a legitimate key that only I've used, I've had it so long, and It just has too many different pc builds associated with it?

Is there a finite number of...

Ok it decided i didn't have digital entitlement again this evening so I re-entered the original 7 key. This time I got an error straight away:
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No worries I appreciate you taking the time to help me.

Ii booted the PC to enter the original key again, however windows has now decided that it is activated. I'm sure that later today or...

ok, it replaced tokens.dat, but the error remains. Heres the results from showkeyplus
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Anybody?

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Ok so it took 2 days to reject the MSDN key this time. Note that this is a recent install of win10 from scratch (not upgraded), but ive already used one of the dodgy ebay keys on it...

Alright, it activated ok as always. I'll resurrect this thread when it inevitably throws it's toys out of the pram.

thanks for the advice guys, will look for a more legit key. Still feel pretty cheated out of my free copy.

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So it's an OEM key - is that the problem? Still seems weird to me that I would have the same issue with 3 different keys...

Thanks for the replies guys, will try out suggestions tomorrow.

Me neither man, this has been going on for about 15 months now. Pretty sick of reinstalls and calls to the activation hotline.

Hope somebody can help me!

Yes that's what I thought too, didn't stop windows throwing up the activation request over and over again.

I upgraded the mobo and CPU in December '14, probably 6 months before the win10 upgrade,...

Last year shortly after it became available. I did a fresh install with the win7 key after the update which made that possible, around September time?

Yes I'd been using that 7 licence for a few years, and through a few different hardware upgrades. It was fully activated at the time of the win10 upgrade.

I originally upgraded from 7 (licence obtained through msdn), and got my first 'activate windows error 2 weeks later). Called ms and got a confirmation I'd, which entered fine and worked for another...