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SL_REMAPPING_MDOLLAR_OSR_DEVICE_THROTTLED
Where this result is produced
SL_REMAPPING_MDOLLAR_OSR_DEVICE_THROTTLED is HRESULT 0x803FABBE. It belongs to digital-license hardware-change reactivation. Its narrow boundary is: the target device has exceeded the allowed rate of reactivation attempts.
AllStat records “Error code indicating that device is not eligible for reactivation because it is throttled” for this HRESULT. That identifies the official outcome; the additional value is the producing object, evidence set, nearby conditions and safe verification path.
Objects and state transitions
| Stage | Role for this HRESULT |
|---|---|
| Previous entitlement | The donor device/license record must exist and be transferable. |
| Account link | The signed-in account association is evaluated independently for this HRESULT. |
| Target eligibility | Edition, hardware, policy and anti-abuse state can each produce the result denial. |
| Commit | No new device association is written while this result remains active. |
A later unlicensed, notification or grace-state message describes a consequence. Preserve the earliest event carrying this HRESULT for the same product object or service request.
What the constant itself tells you
| Signal | Interpretation |
|---|---|
| Family | The OSR prefix places the result in the digital-license reactivation and transfer workflow. |
| Object | A temporary rate or attempt limit applies. |
| Operation | The suffix names the object or transition to inspect before any broad activation reset. |
| State | Its HRESULT severity is failure; later status messages can describe only the resulting state. |
Minimum diagnostic record
| Evidence | Question answered |
|---|---|
| signed-in account identity in redacted form | For this HRESULT: Which prior device owns the digital entitlement? |
| selected donor-device record and target device | For this HRESULT: Is the signed-in account linked and locally elevated? |
| installed edition and digital-license status | For this HRESULT: Is the denial temporary throttling, policy, or a nontransferable/block decision? |
| first rejection time and recent request frequency | For this HRESULT: Can hardware-change summary without publishing raw identifiers be captured before changing state? |
| hardware-change summary without publishing raw identifiers | For this HRESULT: Does the evidence support “avoid more retries, verify the target hardware identity and wait or escalate through supported activation assistance” rather than account-level throttling, which follows the user rather than this hardware? |
Redact full keys, activation blobs, account tokens, private certificate material and raw hardware identifiers. Partial keys, hashes, IDs and UTC timestamps retain correlation value without publishing secrets.
How to reproduce the same boundary
- Bind this result to the exact Application ID, Activation ID, edition and partial key.
- Record
0x803FABBE, UTC time, caller and the first method or server request that returned it. - Capture selected donor-device record and target device specifically for this HRESULT.
- Prove the distinction between the named boundary and account-level throttling, which follows the user rather than this hardware before remediation.
- After one supported change, repeat the same operation and compare state, events and response correlation for this HRESULT.
REM Evidence context: SL_REMAPPING_MDOLLAR_OSR_DEVICE_THROTTLED
cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /dlv
cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /xprUse the status output as evidence. Run an activation retry only after the collected state supports the identified prerequisite; blind retries can add quota, throttle or cleanup noise.
Do not merge these conditions
| Result | Different condition |
|---|---|
SL_REMAPPING_MDOLLAR_OSR_GP_DISABLED | effective policy disables the hardware-change reactivation workflow |
SL_REMAPPING_MDOLLAR_OSR_USER_THROTTLED | anti-abuse limits temporarily prevent this account from making another reactivation request |
SL_REMAPPING_MDOLLAR_OSR_HARDWARE_BLOCKED | the hardware identity is explicitly ineligible for digital-license reactivation |
Sort related HRESULTs by timestamp and object/request identity. The first code from the producing layer is usually more actionable than a later summary from Settings, deployment software or a wrapper.
A focused reproduction for this exact result
| Control | Design |
|---|---|
| Failing fixture | Repeated reinstallation or hardware-change attempts trigger device throttling. |
| Single variable | Change only request frequency and elapsed time since the first rejection. |
| Positive control | One request succeeds after the documented cooling interval with the same eligible account/device. |
| Different result | If the experiment instead proves “effective policy disables the hardware-change reactivation workflow”, follow that neighboring boundary rather than treating it as this result. |
This controlled comparison is stronger than a broad reset because it changes one prerequisite and leaves product identity, evidence source and observation method stable.
Recovery without broad resets
A supported correction is to avoid more retries, verify the target hardware identity and wait or escalate through supported activation assistance. A representative incident is repeated reinstallation or hardware-change attempts trigger device throttling.
Changes that make this code harder to diagnose
- avoid selecting unrelated donor devices until one succeeds; it changes evidence without proving the named boundary.
- avoid assuming every digital license can transfer between devices or editions; it changes evidence without proving the named boundary.
- avoid publishing raw account tokens or hardware identifiers; it changes evidence without proving the named boundary.
Technical references
- Reactivate Windows after a hardware change — official reference for the mechanism surrounding this result.
- Use the Windows Activation troubleshooter — official reference for the mechanism surrounding it.
- Activate Windows
- SoftwareLicensingProduct WMI class
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