Problems activating Windows 7

[mikeprice]

Help!!

 

Just setting up a new PC - everything Ok and just connected it to the domain

 

Realised that Windows needs to be activated so tried - get an error saying DNS Name does not exist

 

Dns is working fine - can get onto WWW fine

 

Any clues where to look would be gratefully received as I need to get this PC into a classroom tomorrow first thing!!

 

TIA

 

Mike

 

p.s. I may be being thick - it's been a long day!

[3s-gtech]

At a guess, you have a KMS key installed and it's looking for your KMS address via DNS. Do you have a KMS?

[mikeprice]

no - everything else has activated OK from the same everything

[mrwoberts]

Do you have any filtering in place that may be blocking the lookup?

 

Try manually setting your DNS to: 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4

then

ipconfig /flushdns

 

reboot and try again.

[mikeprice]

OK - problem sorted

 

I spent half of yesterday evening looking up stuff on WWW - no wiser this morning - it should be OK

Checked this morning and the License is MAK not KMS - documentations says that entering a MAK key should stop it trying to activate using KMS but it didn't

 

Running SLMGR seemd to be OK but at the bottom it said to run slmgr /ato - so I did (blindly - dunno what it did really)

 

Then out of desparation I just re-entered the product key

 

Which then activated fine

 

I hate problems that just go away - I always suspect they will come back at a more inconvenient time!

 

Thanks to all who replied

 

Mike