joeman1881 Posted February 27, 2014 Report post Posted February 27, 2014 Generally the 0x80004005 error would be "access denied" or similar. Might sound a bit odd, but is the Bios clock set to the right time? (and date). That can cause this error apparently. I saw this in another article, but I disregarded it due to the fact that the Surface doesn't have a user modifiable bios. Come to find the machines MS sent us for demo's were dated back to Aug 2013, and didn't sync with the Server because of it. This caused the machines not to find any active deployments. Setting up the OOB stuff for W8.1 and changing the time in the OS before PXE booting corrected the issue. Come to find the machines actually sync with MS regularly to keep the internal clock up to date. Thanks everyone for the notes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edenost Posted February 28, 2014 Report post Posted February 28, 2014 Just to confirm, it was a "time/date" issue? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeman1881 Posted February 28, 2014 Report post Posted February 28, 2014 Just to confirm, it was a "time/date" issue? Yes it was. Thanks for finally making me take a look at this! Microsoft Surfaces time/date has to manually be adjusted in the Windows OS in order to update the internal clock. Silly to go through oob experience just to update time, but whatever makes them work... Happy Friday! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edenost Posted February 28, 2014 Report post Posted February 28, 2014 Yeah, it's stupid . Glad you got it all sorted anyway. Happy Friday to you too good Sir !! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
willisj318 Posted February 28, 2014 Report post Posted February 28, 2014 Nice catch I forgot about that one. We once got a bunch of Lenovo's with bios dates back to 2010 and had the same issue. So many things to think about! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
