gwb21471
Active Member
I have a dell poweredge 2950. When i bought it. It had windows server 2012 R2 fresh installed. the guy i bought it off of installed it on there. I just had to put my name in and finish a few things after i turn it on. After a month of it running the hard drive that the windows server 2012 was on died and i could fix it or copy it to other drive. After finding a web site that sold keys and at the time i was to dumb to know that the key i was buying won't work. So i bought the key and downloaded windows server 2012 R2 and installed it and when i tried to activate it. I got that the key can't be activated. At the time windows server 2019 was out. I called microsoft tech support and they just told me that they couldn't help me because server 2012 was too old and i would need to buy server 2019. I didn't have $400 at the time and still don't. I got ubuntu server running on it but i like to have a windows server running instead. when i had windows server 2012 on it. It work great. Linux server keeps telling me one service keeps failing. I restart the service and it will fail with in 5 minutes or so. I use this server as a home server. It has 2 cpu's in it with 8 cores total and 24gb of memory. I don't know where to go to get a product key that will activate and i can use it with the right drivers and programs. Thank you for the help.
