So let me get this straight.. another activation question

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David Candy wrote:
| A real OEM disk is virtually identical to a retail disk (it just
| won;t upgrade). But most companies make their own OEM disks. And
| anything goes. Some are just ghosted images.
|
||
|| My OEM disks all the way back to WIN95 throught XPH and
|| XPP just work.
||
|| Colin Barnhorst wrote:
||| I think you made the right decision. It is telling that all the
||| questions in the newsgroup are about OEM cd's. No one has to ask
||| about retail editions. They just work.
|||
|||| Thanks to all who posted. I have purchased a new retail version and
|||| won't have to worry about it any longer.
|||| Now I just have to get all my hardware and putt his thing
|||| together.. My cost
|||| building my own is more than half less if I would have bought an
|||| OOB pc.. thanks again
|||| slotcarz
||||
|||| "slotcarz" wrote:
||||
||||| I bought a OEM version of Win XP Home w/SP1 off of ebay. I
||||| received a piece
||||| of hardware as per ebay/Microsoft regulations for the transaction.
||||| I am building a new pc with a new cpu, motherboard, and ram, using
||||| My old HDD, both dvd and dvd/rw drives. Can someone tell me where
||||| I stand on re-activation? As I remember, I received a cdrom cable
||||| as my hardware with
||||| this purchase. I had to re-format and install XP Home at the end
||||| of Jan/05
||||| due to a problem and activation went thru no problem. I have this
||||| feeling I
||||| am screwed and have to buy another copy of XP. Is there not
||||| anything that can
||||| be done to not have to do this. I went thru the automated help to
||||| get my 2
||||| free requests for help but looks like they want me to pay for that
||||| also. thanks for your time
|||||
||||| slotcarz

No, any mid-sized or small dealer who puts a box together for a customer
will give the customer a Microsoft hologrammed OEM cd. It will be silver,
hologrammed with Windows, and say "for installation on a new computer only."
These are the cd's folks buy at the local computer store (not the chain
outlets) or buy off of eBay with a piece of non-functional hardware. It is
much rarer to see the branded OEM cd's on eBay, but some do show up. The
large vendors are the ones who brand the OEM cd's and these are the ones
that have the OOBE changes to suite the vendor.

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"David Candy" . wrote in message
...
A real OEM disk is virtually identical to a retail disk (it just won;t
upgrade). But most companies make their own OEM disks. And anything goes.
Some are just ghosted images.

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"BBUNNY" wrote in message
...

My OEM disks all the way back to WIN95 throught XPH and
XPP just work.

Colin Barnhorst wrote:
| I think you made the right decision. It is telling that all the
| questions in the newsgroup are about OEM cd's. No one has to ask
| about retail editions. They just work.
|
|| Thanks to all who posted. I have purchased a new retail version and
|| won't have to worry about it any longer.
|| Now I just have to get all my hardware and putt his thing together..
|| My cost
|| building my own is more than half less if I would have bought an OOB
|| pc.. thanks again
|| slotcarz
||
|| "slotcarz" wrote:
||
||| I bought a OEM version of Win XP Home w/SP1 off of ebay. I received
||| a piece
||| of hardware as per ebay/Microsoft regulations for the transaction.
||| I am building a new pc with a new cpu, motherboard, and ram, using
||| My old HDD, both dvd and dvd/rw drives. Can someone tell me where I
||| stand on re-activation? As I remember, I received a cdrom cable as
||| my hardware with
||| this purchase. I had to re-format and install XP Home at the end of
||| Jan/05
||| due to a problem and activation went thru no problem. I have this
||| feeling I
||| am screwed and have to buy another copy of XP. Is there not
||| anything that can
||| be done to not have to do this. I went thru the automated help to
||| get my 2
||| free requests for help but looks like they want me to pay for that
||| also. thanks for your time
|||
||| slotcarz