Windows 10 deactivated after motherboard change

JamesMc19

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Having a bit of an issue with windows 10, last week i installed an ssd then cloned my os from the original hard drive to the ssd. No problems were had with that. Yesterday i made a much bigger change by replacing my motherboard, cpu and ram. At first i saw no issues but after playing around a bit, realised that my copy of windows was no longer activated. I tried running the troubleshooter but there was no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Just called up Microsoft support and they said that i need to find my original windows 8 product key. There's definitely no chance of that, built the thing 5 years ago. My account should be linked to windows though so im confused as to why the troubleshooter didn't work.
 

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Couldn't find the other one after i edited it, apologies for posting twice.