Classmate - Windows Not Activating

[BrandonD-1528]

So, apparently our classmates are getting activation errors and claiming Windows is not genuine after reimaging. The systems are from the 2010 kit.
We're currently running tests to find out if the issue is with the network setup or an issue with the install.

Error:

0x8007232B
Description:
DNS name does not exist.

UPDATE: Ping isn't working, so there's an issue in the networking, looking into it.

UPDATED UPDATE: Tracert is getting to ntwk.msn.com and stops. Ping is timing out to www.microsoft.com. Is everyone imaging at once and crashing Microsoft's servers like they did to FIRST and CD today?

UPDATED UPDATE OF UPDATEDNESS: Google can be pinged, and I can't ping Microsoft from home either. Looks like Microsoft is having a server outage.

PING:

brandon@nickolai:~$ ping www.microsoft.com
PING lb1.www.ms.akadns.net (65.55.12.249) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.22.8.58 icmp_seq=17 Packet filtered
From 10.22.8.58 icmp_seq=36 Packet filtered
From 10.22.8.58 icmp_seq=37 Packet filtered
From 10.22.8.58 icmp_seq=51 Packet filtered

TRACERT:

brandon@nickolai:~$ traceroute www.microsoft.com
traceroute to www.microsoft.com (65.55.12.249), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  homeportal (192.168.1.254)  3.501 ms  3.548 ms  3.894 ms
 2  * * *
 3  75.26.93.194 (75.26.93.194)  28.783 ms  29.852 ms  30.391 ms
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  151.164.99.200 (151.164.99.200)  31.221 ms bb2-g14-0.sfldmi.sbcglobal.net (151.164.92.220)  23.691 ms 151.164.99.200 (151.164.99.200)  24.329 ms
 7  151.164.99.177 (151.164.99.177)  31.469 ms  31.068 ms  31.190 ms
 8  ppp-151-164-46-34.eulstx.swbell.net (151.164.46.34)  31.731 ms  31.881 ms  30.530 ms
 9  xe-0-1-2-0.ch1-16c-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.43.204)  32.027 ms  30.432 ms  31.339 ms
10  ge-1-3-0-0.co1-64c-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.40.98)  91.837 ms  92.001 ms  91.962 ms
11  10.22.8.170 (10.22.8.170)  91.589 ms  91.294 ms  91.641 ms
12  10.22.8.58 (10.22.8.58)  95.838 ms  92.081 ms  91.677 ms
13  * * *
14  * * *

[BrandonD-1528]

Adding a reply so that people having the same problem see that this post has a reply and finds the solution.

[PriyankP]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=88413

Try doing what I did. It'll most likely fix the genuine windows problem. But to fix the other problem, try doing the whole process again.

[BrandonD-1528]

That's probably not going to help, because we can't even reach the activation server.

[PriyankP]

Originally Posted by BrandonD-1528

That's probably not going to help, because we can't even reach the activation server.

Well, wait till tomorrow then. Does it really matter if the classmate runs on an unverified windows for a day or two? I'm pretty sure it won't affect programming and driver station softwares in anyway.

Edit: I just checked if my home computer is running on genuine windows, it works fine for me. May be it's your internet giving problems?

Edit Edit: http://www.computing.net/answers/win...tes/89879.html Microsoft is most likely blocking your ping requests..

[BrandonD-1528]

I figured that with the ping requests. As for the verification, I was just wondering how many other people were having the problem and trying to provide as much info as I could to get the issue solved.

[darkorbit]

I just reimaged. First have you checked if all the drivers are installed after the reimage? lol mine weren't. second you should follow this instruction that was in the how to setup pdf. "Download the file “Classmate_Update.bat” from the 2011 FRC Control System website and copy it to the Desktop of the Classmate." It worked for me.

[stinstin]

I reimaged the classmate to the 2011 image, installed the classmate update as per the instructions mentioned above, and then installed the driver station update. Sometime during that process the activation messages disappeared. If this doesn't work for you, let us know!

[BrandonD-1528]

This is working just fine now, but we're low on disk space. I'm quite tempted to remove the recovery partition and add it to the Windows partition. Doing this over a net or USB-booted copy of linux should work alright.

EDIT: Yeah... netbooting is way too complex, and I don't have any flash drives large enough that I'm willing to wipe... any other ideas?

[darkorbit]

Actually I lied that software update didn't do junk lol I'm getting that DNS error too. I've already imaged it like twice. I have 26 more days to activate haha but I can't because of the DNS error.

[Joe Ross]

FIRST knows about the activation issue and is working on the solution.

http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=15994