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Pardon the length; I'll try hard to keep it short as possible. I know there is a lot on the internet concerning genuine Windows 7 64 OS suddenly being flagged as not valid. I tried a number of ideas postulated on the web but I still can't get it to work. Now to be honest this issue has been ongoing since last mid-April of 2016. My laptop is a Lenovo T430 which I purchased in 2012 and is strictly used for business on the road. It runs an i5 dual core, It came with a single stick of 4 gigs of RAM which I upgraded to 2x4 = 8 gigs in 2014. In 2015 I replaced the 5400 rpm hard drive with a Samsung SSD. The migration went without a hitch. I have never had any issues with these upgrades.
Then one day in April of last year when I booted up my system I was suddenly told my OS system is invalid and I could not update. I attempted to resolve this issue for several weeks but to no avail. Because my work changed from having to go on the road I laid the T430 aside for almost a full year. But now I want to start using it again due to new work demands but it is still coming up as not genuine.
1. Like last year several security scans (Malwarebytes; ESET NOD32) show no infections.
2. The Samsung SSD is running good as per the Samsung Magician utility tool.
3. The motherboard has the latest BIOS successfully installed.
4. The Windows 7 64 is genuine.
5. This laptop has never been dropped or abused and it looks brand new.
A Few Other Things:
A. The screen that you can access under control panel concerning basic information about my system states that neither the processor nor the RAM is available as well as my validation key and yet the Device Manager recognizes them.
B. There are no Yellow Triangles in any category under Device manager.
Thoughts? Thanks.
Then one day in April of last year when I booted up my system I was suddenly told my OS system is invalid and I could not update. I attempted to resolve this issue for several weeks but to no avail. Because my work changed from having to go on the road I laid the T430 aside for almost a full year. But now I want to start using it again due to new work demands but it is still coming up as not genuine.
1. Like last year several security scans (Malwarebytes; ESET NOD32) show no infections.
2. The Samsung SSD is running good as per the Samsung Magician utility tool.
3. The motherboard has the latest BIOS successfully installed.
4. The Windows 7 64 is genuine.
5. This laptop has never been dropped or abused and it looks brand new.
A Few Other Things:
A. The screen that you can access under control panel concerning basic information about my system states that neither the processor nor the RAM is available as well as my validation key and yet the Device Manager recognizes them.
B. There are no Yellow Triangles in any category under Device manager.
Thoughts? Thanks.