Hello all. The starangest thing happened yesterday. My wife's laptop has been activated with 7 Ultimate via BIOS mod for over a year. Just yesterday a message popped up out of nowhere saying Windows is not genuine but the system properties still says it's activated. I've attached a couple of screen grabs to illustrate. Clicking reslove online also tells me I'm not genuine. I've found a few threads of people who've had similar problems but nothing I've found works. I've tried reinstalling the key and license file, rearming and then reinstalling the key and license file, and running Fix WAT. After each I've run %SystemRoot%\system32\Wat\WatAdminSvc.exe /run and visited hxxp://xxx.microsoft.com/genuine/validate and I am continuously told that I am not genuine. BTW, the key that I use is the Acer key from the thread found here: hxxp://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/10370-Windows-7-OEM-SLP-Key-Collection so the key should be good. Attached is also the output from the MGA Diagnostic Tool. I hope someone can help me straighten this out. TIA.
I ran MBR Regenerator and then reinstalled the cert and key and I'm still getting the message saying my windows is not genuine. This is so frustrating.
Maybe you used the Lenovo Ultimate key that leaked and had been revoked?! Use another Ultimate key from tagged list and check whether the bios realy contains the SLIC.
@sr71: As mentioned in the OP, I used the Acer key from the list provided right here at MDL. That list doesn't have any blacklisted keys. @Tito: I'll post an updated MGADiag report when I get home from work.
What did you use as your source for the Windoze installation? An "un-touched" version of Windoze should not result in all those tampered files.
I did use an untouched oem Windows 7 iso. The only thing I added was the sources\$oem$ folder for Acer that I got from that thread here at MDL. Like I said in the OP it was working fine fore over a year and then all of a sudden I started getting message that Windows is not genuine. This machine did recently have a malware infection but it's clean now. Maybe it could have damaged something having to do with Windows activation before it was cleaned but I would have thought that MBR Regenrator would've fixed anything of that nature.
Looks like a repair install may be your only other option. If not fixed then do a wipe & new clean install.
First allow me to aplogize to the folks who have been following this thread and helping me with my problem for not getting back to you with the results. I didn't mean to be rude. The repair install did the trick. @Fredust_AIR: I would try the other methods mentioned in this thread first obviously because the reason they were suggested is that the've worked for others with similar situations plus they're all a lot less annoying than doing a repair install. But if all else fails, go withe the repair install. You won't lose anything except time.