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.
Windows reports “Error code indicating that device is not eligible for reactivation because it is throttled”.
Objects and state transitions
Stage
Role
Previous entitlement
The donor device/license record must exist and be transferable.
Account link
The signed-in account association is evaluated independently.
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.
Minimum diagnostic record
Evidence
Question answered
signed-in account identity in redacted form
Which prior device owns the digital entitlement?
selected donor-device record and target device
Is the signed-in account linked and locally elevated?
installed edition and digital-license status
Is the denial temporary throttling, policy, or a nontransferable/block decision?
first rejection time and recent request frequency
Can hardware-change summary without publishing raw identifiers be captured before changing state?
hardware-change summary without publishing raw identifiers
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?
How to reproduce the same condition
Record 0x803FABBE, UTC time, caller and the first method or server request that returned it.
Before remediation, confirm that the failure is not instead the neighboring condition: account-level throttling, which follows the user rather than this hardware.
REM Evidence context: SL_REMAPPING_MDOLLAR_OSR_DEVICE_THROTTLED
cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /dlv
cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /xpr
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
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”, diagnose that condition separately rather than treating it as this HRESULT.
Recovery without broad resets
To correct this using supported mechanisms, avoid more retries, verify the target hardware identity and wait or escalate through supported activation assistance.
Changes that make this code harder to diagnose
Avoid selecting unrelated donor devices until one succeeds.
Avoid assuming every digital license can transfer between devices or editions.
Avoid publishing raw account tokens or hardware identifiers.
