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Daave typed:
Alan wrote:
Hi all,


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You should *not* have used a Dell-branded XP installation
CD, and the HP/Compaq rep should not have told you this
would work! The Dell-branded XP installation CD is locked
to Dell motherboards.

Not so. My Dell T3400 workstation came with a complete, unlocked XP system
disk and at the SP3 level along with a win7 install disc, but it was older,
sans the SP for it. It's a win7 machine but I asked for XP Pro to be
preinstalled, so they did that. First thing I did was wipe/reinstall XP Pro
to my likings & partitions. So far, as long as I had their code, I've used
it (a copy of course) to install two other XP machines; one an Acer and the
other an HP. Dell gives the discs on certain, not all models. You have to
read to see which is which, or ask.

HTH,

Twayne`
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