Did try 8.8.8.8 as well as the standard ISP DNS servers, no luck.

Ended up reinstalling and activated fine, so who knows.

That gives:
"Activating Windows(R), Core edition
(2b1f36bb-c1cd-4306-bf5c-a0367c2d97d8) ...
Error: 0x80072EE7 On a computer running Microsoft Windows non-core edition, run 'slui 0x2a 0x80072EE7'...

Clean install of Windows 10 Version 1909 today and when attempting to activate I'm getting a 0x80072ee7 error - message states "We can't acctivate Windows on this device because our activation...

I bought a UX305CA this week and have done an SSD upgrade - initially I was going to fit a 256GB M.2 NVMe, but on going to install it discovered the slot ASUS have used isn't compatible with NVMe...

Interesting. I had to completely power off the laptop - have noticed it works best if left for a few seconds before powering straight back on as well, had a couple occurrences where it failed after...

Put together a short video on this today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEtQys14b5g

Just to clarify, booting to the BIOS isn't essential as such, it is purely so you don't end up switching the laptop off after it has hit the bootloader and have the installer rollback to the previous...

Been doing an upgrade for a customer today and may have a solution.

Appears to be a firmware bug with the Samsung Q330 - when it reboots it will load the logo, but no hard drive activity and won't...