bought pc secondhand about 18 months ago, originally installed with vista but had been upgraded by previous owner to win7 ultimate, activated and validated etc. worked fine for about 6 months, then had major permissions issues and as all hp system software was not present, no recovery manager etc, so decided to do reinstall. Copied all the drivers and updates from hp to a usb, then Downloaded win7 sp1 iso to usb and did fresh install. All went fine installed , activated, validated as genuine.
was working fine then one day started to get windows not genuine error.
window pops up saying you may be the victim of counterfiet software,with 3 options (not word exact)
-get genuine windows, buy new product key
-change product key
-contact microsoft to resolve
first tried change product key as noticed product ID was now in system properties with the OEM code, instead of actual product key. Entered product key and get activation error 0xc004f063.
The software licencing service recorded that the computer bios is missing a required licence.
The more info link for possible resolution=
'You can also contact microsoft by phone to help resolve this problem' link takes me to Windows help and Support with CONTACT HP.
Did all that, they couldnt help me with the case at the time, since then i have remembered a few things that could possibly have made an impact,
-updated the bios from F:01 to F:19 with update from hp site after reinstall
-didnt reinstall the licenced microsoft office install that had been on the computer
-downloaded all missing updated from windows update, (there was ALOT)
-deleted 'old windows' file as it was taking up too much space
-when reinstalling and activating i changed the name of the computer and the name of the licencee of product to mine (it had been previous owners)
As all these things were done around the same time, i dont know which if any is the cause, windows still worked fine for about 2 weeks after before getting the error.
I found a work around that was deleting a certain update , which put windows at 30 days for activation when trying to activate i got 'windows vista OEM marker present in firmware.'
however it did download microsoft security essentials, which you have to have genuine windows to get, and still have it working and updating regularly right now despite this error returning,
every link i try is no longer existent, there is alot of posts on the net about this, with the two 'fixes' i have seen, not being applicable for my computer as those permissions were already set as they were supposed to be.
Im at a loss, please can someone help