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So got a coupe of Dell Latitude E7240's, one's a standard and the other is the ultrabook. Only difference is the Ultrabook has a 1920x1080 screen. Both 17-4600, DDR3 mSATA SSD's.
Setup the standard first. Powered on, checked Windows 10 activated, pit in new SSD, extra RAM, setup UEFI, Secure Boot, TPM and installed Windows 10 Pro 1803. Windows activated software installed happily running away.
Setup the Ultrabook without really looking at the activation but pretty sure it was. Put in SSD that may have already had Windows 10 installed from another Dell, new RAM and setup UEFI, Secure Boot, TPM then think I turned on laptop without putting in installation USB.
So Windows launches no issues, no driver problems but find Windows won't activate.slmgr.vbs is no use, Troubleshooting wants me to login to Microsoft Account (rather suck a dog off), Google hasn't helped and ProduKey says I don't have an OEM BIOS Key and the installed key doesn't exist but is the Default Windows 10 Pro key VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T.
I've since reinstalled and it is the same issue. I get 0xC004C003 The activation server determined the specified key is blocked...
Any ideas? Don't want to call Microsoft tonight, will do tomorrow if I have too but that will only be painful.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Contact them via the web - they will dial into your lappie and fix it for you, it's pretty painless. When I changed motherboards I had to do that and it took a while because I run three monitors and he could only see the one in the middle - and the start button / taskbar is on the one on the left so I had to open every app he wanted to play with.
Other than that, it wasn't too bad at all, as long as you have a CoA handy.
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do you have the proper key (if it's a dell is it the one on the machine?)
quick google got me: How to deactivate Windows 10 and change the product key[^]
from memoly got to do the /upk first
seems odd if there is no slmgr.vbs, perhaps need to chdir to the windoze/system32 or whereever they hide it? (search no resultata's??)
oh, and don't forget the "Run as Administrangler"
or find it on t'other machine and copy it over?
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Lopatir wrote: do you have the proper key (if it's a dell is it the one on the machine?)
It's in the BIOS/UEFI, has to be a proper key.
Lopatir wrote: quick google got me: How to deactivate Windows 10 and change the product key[^]
Thanks, will try it this morning.
Lopatir wrote: seems odd if there is no slmgr.vbs, perhaps need to chdir to the windoze/system32 or whereever they hide it? (search no resultata's??)
It's no use, in it didn't fix the problem.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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So how did it go with the dog?
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That's f*ckin funny as sh*t.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's tee-shirt material right there. LOLOL
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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How about putting the original hard drive back in?
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mgama wrote: How about putting the original hard drive back in?
Tried that, didn't work. FirmwareTablesView[^] shows that there is no MSDM which is where the BIOS Key is stored.
Further reading says that when Dell replace a motherboard, that motherboard doesn't have a BIOS Key in it. Bloody stupid if you ask me, but that is all I can assume it is.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I got a 2nd Pi and setup my secondary DNS server. The pi-mary DNS server has blocked 38% of queries made (SWMBO's iPad is quite the chatty Kathy in this regard) since I stood the server up. I'm happy with that result, and I don't mind at all that these little boxes are running Linux. It's actually a refreshing break from Redmond's oppressive Windows OS.
RANT #1 =============
The pi-hole multi-server support is non-existent - if you have two pi-hole servers, neither one knows about the other (c'mon guys, it's not the 80's any more - THINK ABOUT YOUR USERS!). Seems to me that it would be assumed that the low cost of entry would prompt a lot of people to run two pi-holes for DNS.
Things become even worse with regards to also being a DHCP server (you shouldn't have more than one DHCP server on the network at a time, and this forces me to keep using the router as a DHCP server). In the event the primary pi-hole goes down, the secondary will be used, but you have to manually turn on dhcp for your network to be 100% again. Some interaction and automation between two (or more) pi-holes would be really nice.
RANT #2 =============
Every time I see someone having a problem, the universal answer is to issue a series of arcane command line statements. To be fair, this has ALWAYS been Linux's biggest failures in terms of acceptance, and is not at all pihole's fault. Modern (non-Linux) users have become so spoiled with pretty GUIs (and yes, that includes me) that they would simply rather not bother with command line crap. There is no value in forcing people to be propeller heads, and there's no reason to keep insisting on doing it. Period.
I understand that most people run pi-hole devices in a headless configuration and might install the non-GUI version of raspian to create the smallest possible footprint, but there IS a version of raspian created for those that would like to remote desktop into a GUI instead of using a PuTTY console, so they should put some effort into supporting the users that choose to do this.
NON-RANT ============
Pi #1 is running on a new 16GB SD card, but Pi #2 is running on a 5-year old 8GB card (dog slow compared to the 16GB card). Hopefully, I'll get my 32gb compact thumb drives in the next day or two, and I'll transfer the OS image from both Pi's to the larger thumb drives. I've read the SD cards are substantially slower than a USB drive, and even more important, are not nearly as reliable. It's really too bad that the Pi 3B+ doesn't have a USB3 port (like most SBC alternatives already do), because booting from USB will be even faster. Here's hoping we get more RAM, a faster CPU, and USB3 on the Pi4...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 27-Sep-18 10:41am.
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Are you advertising the pi-hole? 
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John, do you have any hobbies that bring you happiness and low stress?
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cycling is great for low stress, 'specially when you casually cycle past lines of rush hour traffic.
slightly higher risk of injury, but what use is an immune system if it's not used regularly?
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I would guess shooting does that for him.
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Chasing people off my property gives me great enjoyment. It's even more enjoyable when they stop running because they think they're out of range. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Have you entirely given up on racing simulations?
I still mess around with Rfactor 1 on occasion. The newer games hold little interest for me.
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Yeah - a long time ago. In fact, the only game I've been playing to any degree is one I wrote - Anagrams2 - A Simple WPF Game Application[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'm also not stressed, mostly because I have no filters. AS far as the specified rants go, I feel like I'm qualified to offer an opinion, no matter how self-righteously indignant I may sound. 
Of course, I normally respond to rants like that with sage advice, along the lines of, "You're a programmer - fix it!". If I have the time and can figure out how to do it, I just might. Truth be told, I've already started googling about it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Was mostly joking around. I know cars, guns, and um, Pi are your hobbies right now. Oh forgot the trespasser.
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I started to set up pi-hole, but my modem/router requires two DNS servers, and hell if I was going to set up another pi-hole just for that. I tossed it and just use my ridiculously large HOSTS file. 
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Just set the second (backup) one to your existing DNS server. Won't it use the primary Pi-Hole one if available and only use the other one if the Pi crashes?
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That's what I do too. It's over 620KB now.
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The problem with using a hosts file on the local box is that it only works for that box. I have 12 computers/devices to manage at home, and I don't want to run a marathon to update the hosts file all the time. The pi-hole device is a centralized spot for doing it.
If you want to use a single raspberry pi, you could set up a pi-hole on the pi, and then create a virt8ual machine on the same pi and install pi-hole in that VM. Of course, that's kinda stupid because it defeats the high-availability characteristic of having a separate secondary server that will kick in when the primary goes sideways on you.
On the other hand, you can simply use the primary IP of the DNS server that pi-hole was using as your secondary DNS, but that won't filter ads, and that's the reason I just got anther pi to serve as secondary.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Just an update.
My modem/router is SO smart, that if I put pi-hole in as the primary DNS and put Google in as the secondary DNS, it sees that Pi-hole is local...so it uses the secondary.
But no matter, I can't get two virtual switches to run at the same time, so I can't have my Windows VM and my Linux VM running at the same time, anyway.
Someday, I'll stand up a real box and run pi-hole on it. Or get a different modem/router that isn't so "helpful".
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