** It's NOT the thread which have to stay On Topic, that's the post writers who had to stay On Topic with their post! And that's exactly the Main problem with threads like this kind! To many "need" to show what, how and which way they had "play" the game!
It was set to synchronize automatically w/ time.windows.com, should it be some specific time/timezone? I am in PST.
No, just sync it with the internet and set it to your local position. And uninstall all previous "activators" just in case to say
This might be a problem. If you can disable all additional firewall/malware etcetera software, it might help but this is speculation. Just find out yourself
C:\Windows\system32>ping win8kms4.mooo.com Pinging win8kms4.mooo.com [147.134.1.42] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 147.134.1.42: bytes=32 time=98ms TTL=109 Reply from 147.134.1.42: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=109 Reply from 147.134.1.42: bytes=32 time=108ms TTL=109 Reply from 147.134.1.42: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=109 C:\Windows\system32>slmgr -skms 147.134.1.42 C:\Windows\system32>slmgr -ato Still says ' no KMS can be contacted ...'
ping working in my case too.. C:\Windows\system32>ping win8kms4.mooo.com Pinging win8kms4.mooo.com [147.134.1.42] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 147.134.1.42: bytes=32 time=98ms TTL=109 Reply from 147.134.1.42: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=109 Reply from 147.134.1.42: bytes=32 time=108ms TTL=109 Reply from 147.134.1.42: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=109 Ping statistics for 147.134.1.42: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 63ms, Maximum = 111ms, Average = 95ms
few days ago, a member reported, that he had to try 20+ attempts and finally succeeded. Server is still alive
So I have Win8 Pro and it's activated (via one of the KMS servers here), but I was receiving a new GPU in a few days. Would I have to reactivate with another KMS server? If so, how long do I have?