Bitcoin QT Taking Forever to sync

Installed Bitcoin-QT on windows2008r2 server, but it won't sync anything at all. No connections to network, no blocks, no movement full stop. I have OK'd it in windows firewall, tried connecting through the socks proxy option / turned socks off - no dice - added nodes in bitcoin.conf file etc. Everything I can think of, I have no doubt its probably a server issue - but I still have no idea what to do! It's just doing literally nothing - any ideas? I set TCP and UDP rules, which were auto created in firewall, to allow all ports to the client.