Upgrade Windows 10 Home to Windows 11 Pro?


Laptops don't have generic off the shelf motherboards available for them. The motherboard you received as a replacement likely had a product key for Windows stored in firmware.
Not sure about that one since that was a ASUS G74SX-3DE, the replacement motherboard is not a original G74SX-3DE which has a 3D display connector and also a 3D controller connector, it's a modified 2D version with the 3D display connector added but the 3D controller connector is missing but the product key would not be in the firmware because wouldn't that only be only for systems that shipped with Windows 10 and later?
That machine shipped with Windows 7 Home as it's from 2011 got the free upgrade to Windows 10 when it was available. ASUS does not even support Windows 10 on that model, Windows 8 was the latest as seen here:

So the product key is actually on a sticker on the bottom of the machine and not embedded in the BIOS as this doesn't even have a UEFI bios.
 

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Dell XPS 15 9570
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Intel® Core™ i7-8750H 8th Gen 2.2Ghz up to 4.1Ghz
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Dell XPS 15 9570
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64GB using 2x32GB CL16 Mushkin redLine modules
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Realtek ALC3266-CG
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15.6" 4K Touch UltraHD 3840x2160 made by Sharp
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3840x2160 4K UltraHD
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Samsung MZ-V9P4T0B/AM 990 PRO 4TB PCIe®4.0 NVMe™ M.2 SSD was Toshiba KXG60ZNV1T02 NVMe 1TB SSD
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Dell XPS 15 9570
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Dell XPS 15 9570
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Stock
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Stock
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SwitftPoint ProPoint
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