About 4 months ago I wiped 5 Lenovo pc's and installed a clean OEM Windows 7 on them. Installed the license key, product key, and they activated fine. Now all of the sudden, they're all getting "non genuine" warnings and despite being activated according to SLMGR, they fail validation when going to Microsofts validation site. Any suggestions? Ideas why this might be happening?
shows no errors and looks no different than other OEM activations. I can't grab a screen shot at the moment.
This is NOT the result of using "a clean OEM Windows 7 on them". You need a repair install with actual clean media or a complete re-do with same.
Hmmm... it's a white label disc that looks legit. Microsoft logo, hologram, etc... came with a OEM Preinstallation Kit disc. This PC is one that a sorta "computer know it all" works at. He recently brought in a thumbdrive with Hirens on it and he reset the Administrator password. This set off a red flag in monitoring software we use and he has since been reprimanded. I'm wondering if he tried to do something to it. I'm going to check another one of the PC's and see if they show the same information in WGADIAG.
That one looks clean. btw: I presume Tito just wants to add that slic to the collection maintained here, and is not trying to diagnose a problem.
I checked the other 4 Lenovo's in that area and they are all popping up "not genuine" but have similar WGADiag outputs like the one right above this. Any new suggestions?
URIE, didn't use a vistalizator, not even sure what it is. Just did a clean install with an oem disc and then using an elevated command prompt I installed the license file, product key, and ran the activation offline. Kirk, what I meant was that the only differences were the machine names. ip address, etc. The one you said looked clean is getting the pop up as well. I might try removewat and see if that gets the pop up to go away.
The 4 pc's all validate online as genuine when going to that site. The special PC fails and will be wiped tomorrow.