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Xp OEM Activation with SP2
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 |
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Hi
You'll need to contact your OEM supplier!! -- Will Denny MVP - Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups "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 |
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Xp OEM Activation with SP2
Mark Rose wrote:
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 That's because MS wants to make people think they have, what MS deems "illegal", in what they have in XP software, so it disables it, with the hopes that the they (people in your exact situation now) will go out and purchase a full retail version of XP. If your OEM cannot help you, MS won't because they do not support OEMs without pay per incident support. Even if you pay them, you won't get any farther than you already have. |
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Mark Rose wrote:
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 As Will and Dan pointed out you're more than likely screwed in that situation. Have you tried just copying the sp2 to a seperate disk, then install the xp windows as normal and follow up with the sp2? Seems to me the best workaround. |
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"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 Wild stab in the dark time here. As we all know, the product keys are tied to the type of Windows XP, so that OEM keys only work with OEM copies and retail keys only work with retail copies. Maybe by slipstreaming SP2 into your OEM copy of XP Pro OEM, it has become, to all intents and purposes, a retail copy. Therefore your OEM keys no longer work. It would be interesting to know what would happen if you tried a retail XP Pro key. If I'm right, then this is something that Microsoft needs to address before too many slipstreamed OEM coasters are made. Stab in the dark, I know, but others have reported the same problem and it's the only explanation I can think of at the moment. If someone in the same situation could try a retail key and let us know what happens? |
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Dan,
Your answer is quite inaccurate. Microsoft is capable of generating OEM product keys. Its really just a matter of calling and usually in Activation cases it is deemed as free support on the issue(No $35 charge for OEM support). Sorry to ruin your day. "Dan Smith" wrote: Mark Rose wrote: 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 That's because MS wants to make people think they have, what MS deems "illegal", in what they have in XP software, so it disables it, with the hopes that the they (people in your exact situation now) will go out and purchase a full retail version of XP. If your OEM cannot help you, MS won't because they do not support OEMs without pay per incident support. Even if you pay them, you won't get any farther than you already have. |
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Xp OEM Activation with SP2
"Mark Weinreb" wrote in message
... "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 Wild stab in the dark time here. As we all know, the product keys are tied to the type of Windows XP, so that OEM keys only work with OEM copies and retail keys only work with retail copies. Maybe by slipstreaming SP2 into your OEM copy of XP Pro OEM, it has become, to all intents and purposes, a retail copy. Therefore your OEM keys no longer work. It would be interesting to know what would happen if you tried a retail XP Pro key. If I'm right, then this is something that Microsoft needs to address before too many slipstreamed OEM coasters are made. Stab in the dark, I know, but others have reported the same problem and it's the only explanation I can think of at the moment. If someone in the same situation could try a retail key and let us know what happens? Hi OEM CDs aren't meant to be slipstreamed. An original XP CD is needed. -- Will Denny MVP - Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups |
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Xp OEM Activation with SP2
Will Denny wrote:
"Mark Weinreb" wrote in message ... "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 Wild stab in the dark time here. As we all know, the product keys are tied to the type of Windows XP, so that OEM keys only work with OEM copies and retail keys only work with retail copies. Maybe by slipstreaming SP2 into your OEM copy of XP Pro OEM, it has become, to all intents and purposes, a retail copy. Therefore your OEM keys no longer work. It would be interesting to know what would happen if you tried a retail XP Pro key. If I'm right, then this is something that Microsoft needs to address before too many slipstreamed OEM coasters are made. Stab in the dark, I know, but others have reported the same problem and it's the only explanation I can think of at the moment. If someone in the same situation could try a retail key and let us know what happens? Hi OEM CDs aren't meant to be slipstreamed. An original XP CD is needed. Says who? -- Peace! Kurt Self-anointed Moderator microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea http://microscum.com "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron! "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!" |
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Says who? What information do you have? Or, do you have some information that indicates different? |
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"kurttrail" wrote in = message ... Will Denny wrote: =20 "Mark Weinreb" wrote in message ... "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 Wild stab in the dark time here. As we all know, the product keys are tied to the type of Windows XP, so that OEM keys only work with OEM copies and retail keys only work with retail copies. Maybe by slipstreaming SP2 into your OEM copy of XP Pro OEM, it has become, to all intents and purposes, a retail copy. Therefore your OEM keys no longer work. It would be interesting to know what would happen if you tried a retail XP Pro key. If I'm right, then this is something that Microsoft needs to = address before too many slipstreamed OEM coasters are made. Stab in the dark, I know, but others have reported the same problem and it's the only explanation I can think of at the moment. If someone in the same situation could try a retail key and let us know what happens? Hi OEM CDs aren't meant to be slipstreamed. An original XP CD is = needed. =20 Says who? Says the epitome of a microsoldier :-) ! |
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Xp OEM Activation with SP2
It slipstreams fine and installs ok with the product key it just falls over
on the activation. i would have thought it should fail on installation. Mark "Will Denny" wrote in message ... "Mark Weinreb" wrote in message ... "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 Wild stab in the dark time here. As we all know, the product keys are tied to the type of Windows XP, so that OEM keys only work with OEM copies and retail keys only work with retail copies. Maybe by slipstreaming SP2 into your OEM copy of XP Pro OEM, it has become, to all intents and purposes, a retail copy. Therefore your OEM keys no longer work. It would be interesting to know what would happen if you tried a retail XP Pro key. If I'm right, then this is something that Microsoft needs to address before too many slipstreamed OEM coasters are made. Stab in the dark, I know, but others have reported the same problem and it's the only explanation I can think of at the moment. If someone in the same situation could try a retail key and let us know what happens? Hi OEM CDs aren't meant to be slipstreamed. An original XP CD is needed. -- Will Denny MVP - Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups |
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Xp OEM Activation with SP2
Which SP2 version was used? Just because an OEM version is involved, that
should not cause a failure. It sounds like something is not quite right with the copies. (Or, the oem configuration was not set up properly.) There used to be an area in MSDN and the Tecnet for registered OEM/VARs that had information on things like this. (Got out of that business more or less last year.) "Mark Rose" wrote in message ... It slipstreams fine and installs ok with the product key it just falls over on the activation. i would have thought it should fail on installation. Mark "Will Denny" wrote in message ... "Mark Weinreb" wrote in message ... "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 Wild stab in the dark time here. As we all know, the product keys are tied to the type of Windows XP, so that OEM keys only work with OEM copies and retail keys only work with retail copies. Maybe by slipstreaming SP2 into your OEM copy of XP Pro OEM, it has become, to all intents and purposes, a retail copy. Therefore your OEM keys no longer work. It would be interesting to know what would happen if you tried a retail XP Pro key. If I'm right, then this is something that Microsoft needs to address before too many slipstreamed OEM coasters are made. Stab in the dark, I know, but others have reported the same problem and it's the only explanation I can think of at the moment. If someone in the same situation could try a retail key and let us know what happens? Hi OEM CDs aren't meant to be slipstreamed. An original XP CD is needed. -- Will Denny MVP - Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups --- Outgoing mail is AVG certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.732 / Virus Database: 486 - Release Date: 7/29/2004 |
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Dick Kistler wrote:
Says who? What information do you have? Or, do you have some information that indicates different? Well I slipstreamed SP1 into OEM media. I don't know about SP2, that's why I asked. -- Peace! Kurt Self-anointed Moderator microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea http://microscum.com "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron! "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!" |
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Mark Rose wrote:
It slipstreams fine and installs ok with the product key it just falls over on the activation. i would have thought it should fail on installation. Were you offered a choice to do phone activation? If so, do it. -- Peace! Kurt Self-anointed Moderator microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea http://microscum.com "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron! "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!" |
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Total Garbage - my OEM Cd's slipstreamed fine, clean installed back on the
original PC's and reactivate with no problem. 2 Dell Workstations, 1 Dell desktop and 1 laptop - all with Dell OEM XP CD's, all were slipstreamed with SP1 back a few years, all were slipstreamed with SP2. Note to original Poster - you did start with the original OEM CD, not a slipstreamed OEM with SP1, I tried that and got the same results as you - would install fine, but would not activate. It seems slipstreaming SP2 into a CD that had SP1 slipstreamed into it does NOT work, at least from OEM standpoint, but slipstreaming SP2 into an original XP OEM (no SP) works fine. -- Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service ************************************************* "Will Denny" wrote in message ... "Mark Weinreb" wrote in message ... "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 Wild stab in the dark time here. As we all know, the product keys are tied to the type of Windows XP, so that OEM keys only work with OEM copies and retail keys only work with retail copies. Maybe by slipstreaming SP2 into your OEM copy of XP Pro OEM, it has become, to all intents and purposes, a retail copy. Therefore your OEM keys no longer work. It would be interesting to know what would happen if you tried a retail XP Pro key. If I'm right, then this is something that Microsoft needs to address before too many slipstreamed OEM coasters are made. Stab in the dark, I know, but others have reported the same problem and it's the only explanation I can think of at the moment. If someone in the same situation could try a retail key and let us know what happens? Hi OEM CDs aren't meant to be slipstreamed. An original XP CD is needed. -- Will Denny MVP - Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups |
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