Embedded W8 Product key in YOGA BIOS

Hi guys,
I had posted something on this before but that thread had gone off track so i wanted to start a new update.
For users with a YOGA wanting to go to W8Pro with a clean install - the Propack works because it sees the W8 core key in the BIOS and is designed to upgrade from there. Buying the W8Pro upgrade will not upgrade in this way. Here's the scary part, buying a W8Pro System Builder full DVD and doing a clean install doesn't work either! All the previously mentioned installers aside from Propack detect the key in the Bios during the install and simply install W8 basic with the OEM key from Lenovo. It's Propack or nothing, unfortunately.
If you're wondering why i care - I wanted a copy of W8Pro that allows a clean install. Not just on the YOGA but on whatever machine i'm using at the time. In other words i want to own a full copy of the OS i use(crazy huh?). Propack will clean install only with a key embedded in the BIOS (which only an OEM can do) or an existing w8 install. Microsoft screwing the non-enterprise IT folks as usual.
If I'm wrong about something here, please let me know. I'd love to find a way to tell the installer to use a different CD key, but so far it seems to pull the embedded and move on without any options.
old post:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-IdeaTab-Slate-Tablets/Yoga13-Embedded-Win8-Product-Key-in-BIOS/m...
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That really isn't true... Me and the guy that helped me in the other thread proved that it can be done without the pro pack... Yeah its a little more work, but if you have msdn and have access to a lot of the weird versions, but not the retail pro-pack; then it is your only solution without dropping $65...

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The windows 8 key embedded in my YOGA13 is preventing me from doing a fresh install of Win8 Pro. I believe the W8Pro installer is not prompting for a key because it checks for the embedded one which makes it fail due to key/image mismatch. I'd like to know how to work around this but really i'd like to know how a user can see/change the embedded Win8 core in the BIOS. I don't see any options like this. Thanks.
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Oh my god I have been stuck on this issue for the whole first two days I've had this thing... Been on the phone with msdn, 10 different departments at MSFT, 2 chat sessions, an email, 3 calls to Lenova, read everything I could...
This problem sucks... I have the Win 8 N (Multiple Editions) X64 edition and I've been trying to do it on a bootable usb, and it always installed as the regular edition with their key pre-activated...
Msdn chat at least tried to help... The phone people just pass you around every 10 seconds... Lenova was the worst though... All I wanted to know is if there was any way to wipe the embedded key off the computer forever, and she couldn't ever understand that... She kept saying she could get me the key... I don't want the key... I want the key gone... She couldn't get that... She said she would send me new disks for $69.99... That is sweet of her...
REALLY???? cAN'T BE SERIOUS!!!
Hardware transferred me to software that transferred me to hardware... The call dropped each time they transferred... Terrible customer service... Just horrible...
I can't believe I didn't think of it earlier, but the Windows 7 idea sounds interesting... Since I have an rtm disk from msdn I'm still not sure it will work... I'm worried I'll go through the time and end up with it recognizing their key again...

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I live in Finland and I have read previously that these Windows 8 product keys are now linked somehow with motherboard´s BIOS systems, so we actually don´t need to know our product codes anymore.
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