You should see a message indicating the product key was successfully installed.

Elias hung up. Two hours. He didn't have two hours.

Instead, he got a black screen with a harsh, digital watermark in the bottom right corner:

Elias stared. It was the BIOS-embedded key. The machine had actually kept the license in the firmware, but the OS was too confused to see it after the hardware swap.

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