Windows 7 won't activate - weird situation

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  1. baskinghobo

    baskinghobo MDL Junior Member

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  2. spacednow

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    #2 spacednow, Oct 3, 2009
    You did check and made sure the cert matched the bios slic, correct?
     
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  3. jupier2k

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    #3 jupier2k, Oct 3, 2009
    Did you use HP cert ?
    e.g slmgr.vbs -ilc c:\hp.XRM-MS
    if all were to done correctly you should try the other key ?
     
  4. Everilda

    Everilda MDL Senior Member

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  5. antair

    antair MDL Novice

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    #5 antair, Oct 3, 2009
    Have you used activators that replace system files?
     
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  7. carola

    carola MDL Junior Member

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  8. twiz

    twiz MDL Senior Member

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    #8 twiz, Oct 3, 2009
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    Save theses as .BAT files:
    Activate.bat
    Code:
    @echo off
SLMGR.VBS -ilc CERTNAME.XRM-MS
SLMGR.VBS -ipk *****-*****-*****-*****-*****
    Verify.bat
    Code:
    @echo off
slmgr -dli
slmgr -xpr
slmgr -dlv
    Fill in the Cert Name and key you want to use.
    Copy your Cert into the same folder as the two .BAT files and run them.
     
  9. carola

    carola MDL Junior Member

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  10. John W

    John W MDL Novice

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    #10 John W, Oct 4, 2009
    I have the same (or at least similar) problem, W7 Ultimate x64 RTM.

    My laptop is a recent one from Acer that already has the SLIC 2.1 ex factory (I checked the Bios), it therefore cannot be that.

    So deleted Vista, installed W7 and successfully installed the certificate from this site via slmgr -ilc C:\ACER.xrm-ms (the OEM ID is properly displayed as Product ID).

    Now if I try to use the Acer W7 Ultimate SLP key (FJGCP-...) via Control Panel -> System -> Activate, I get but a 0xC004E003 failure message.

    Installing it via slmgr -ipk returns no error, and the key is displayed in the window slmgr -dlv opens, but I am nevertheless told precisely the same "Activate Windows now" message (with same limit and rearm count) as before.
     
  11. pisthai

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  12. Technoboots

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    #12 Technoboots, Oct 4, 2009
    Are you using the correct certificate? According to the stickied thread with the SLIC bin files in there are 2 Acer SLIC's (Acer[ACRSYSACRPRDCT-ANNI] and Acer[ACRSYSACRPRDCT-MSFT]). Try both of the certificates and see if either one works.
     
  13. John W

    John W MDL Novice

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    #13 John W, Oct 4, 2009
    Technoboots, thank you very much for pointing out my second stupid mistake (using a SLIC 2.0 certificate instead of the proper 2.1 one). The first was "reflashing" the old Bios instead of the new one (which was in the folder next to it - to be precise, the models sold now have the new bios with SLIC 2.1, mine is a bit older and had a bios still equipped with SLIC 2.0).

    Anyway, it reports as genuinely activated now.