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I have good news to report, the .ISO from google allowed me to install windows 8 OEM and it reports it as being activated. Checking the key with pkeyui shows that it is the same as before, so it looks like it pulled it off the bios just fine. Thank you for the help everyone! Off to install a...

Ok, I went ahead and grabbed an .ISO from google. I've never done a hash check/MD5 check before, so I thought I would give it a go. I installed HashTab v5.1 and then clicked on the downloaded .ISO. I noticed there was a tab for a hash comparison, but I do not have a MSDN .ISO to compare it...

So it seems I have 1/2 a key to two different locks. The retail ISO for W8 PRO and a key for OEM Core with no ISO. :confused: Before I look into the MD5 check sums and comparing them to what else is available on the interweb, would it be possible to use the generic Windows 8.1 key to do a...

I do not have access to the MSDN downloads area, at least that's what it says when I try and download any of the .iso files. Checking slmgr /dlv indicates that I do have the Core flavor of Windows 8. So the iso that I have been using to try and do a clean install was generated from the...

I created the ei.efg text file and placed it in the source directory with these values: [EditionID] Core [Channel] OEM [VL] 0 Booting to USB resulted in the same error "product key does not match" as before. Not sure if it matters, but I did remove the PID.txt file from the source directory...

I recently purchased a MSI GT70 laptop that came preinstalled with Windows 8. Rather than try and uninstall all the bloatware, I was planning on just doing a clean install. Little did I know that Microsoft had changed the game when it comes to authentication on W8 with the bios linked product...