Activation fails

I have installed Freelance 2014 and it works seemingly fine. But I need to license it. I had Freelance 2014 on another PC last year but that crashed. When I enter the Activation code, which looks odd, because it is not numerals and letters with spaces in between but one single line of numerals, I get the error code Activation failed. Cannot create licence - Socket error 2 (Support reference: Socket Error 2 -77)