![]() You are not given any opportunity to override this. Installing from Windows 8 Pro OEMSB media, the installer detects the valid Windows 8 non-Pro MSDM table, inserts that key, and installs non-Pro. If your new laptop has a Windows 8 Standard preinstalled, and you've purchased an OEM System Builder (OEMSB) copy of Windows 8 Pro, you will encounter the problem OP had. Since each machine had a unique serial embedded into the firmware, it was possible to determine Windows edition as well as type/OEM from the firmware alone. With Windows 8 and SLIC 3.0, there were not generic OEM keys in this way. The BIOS certificate (SLIC) was specific only to the OEM, one SLIC was used for any and all Windows versions. With Windows 7, OEMs generally had one key for each major product version (Home, Pro, etc), and you could change versions by simply using a different OEM key. ![]()
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