Xp OEM Activation with SP2

Hi

Star_Fleet_Admiral: I'm having the same problems with activation. I
slipstreamed my original XP Home OEM CD with the network install of SP2 and
everything went well. I installed from the newly created CD and entered my
CD key and setup/install went ahead without problems, but when I went to
activate it online, I got a message saying something like 'the key is
unauthorised' (which it is clearly not), so re-activation failed.

Of course I can call Microsoft and have it activated but I should be able to
do it online just as you and many others have and I can't understand why it
won't work.

The only thing I can think of is that I created the ISO with CDIMAGE and
chose the date of creatation as the timestamp. I.e.

CLS
@echo off
TITLE Setting UP ISO Image
ECHO.
ECHO Removing Any Possible Attributes Set On C:\winxp And Its SubFolders...
attrib -R -H C:\wxp /S /D
ECHO.
ECHO Creating ISO Image...
CDIMAGE.EXE -lWXHOEM_EN -t08/08/2004,20:30 -h -m -n -x -bxpboot.img C:\WXP
C:\WXHOEM_EN.ISO
ECHO.
PAUSE
EXIT

Do you think that the 'timestamp' may be the problem in my case anf if so,
what should it be?
(Note: The files in the i386 dir of the original oem cd are dated 18 August
2001).

Regards

"Mark Rose" wrote in message
...
I have slipstreamed my copy of Xp Pro OEM with Service pack 2.
i have now formated my PCit all installs ok with the product key but when
i
come to activate it it says product key is invalid. We have 20 copies of
Pro
OEM (we build POS systems) but none will allow Activation yet if i try the
origianl CD it works fine.
So why is Service pack 2 disableing OEM activation when slip streamed

Mark