Re: XP Pro SP3 OEM disc Question

Gary Baldi wrote:
On Oct 6, 12:20 pm, Bob Villa <pheeh.z...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 6, 12:19 am, "Steve W." <csr...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





Ben Myers wrote:
Steve W. wrote:
OK I have probably forgotten the answer to this,
Looking on 'bay at the different OEM discs,
I see a few new Dell OEM SP3 discs,
I just picked up a VERY clean Latitude C840 (2003 build date)
Has XP Pro on it and correct COL for that.
However no software included (machine is former lease unit, looks like
it spent it's life on a shelf)
Am I thinking correctly that the new XP Pro SP3 discs are from a
different batch of COL numbers? Seem to remember reading/hearing that
somewhere. Or was that only for the retail versions?
Those will not work with the COL I now have correct?
Also wondering about a protector to place between screen/keyboard, Many
laptops I see have scuffs from keys and pointer, any recommendations?
If you have a DELL OEM Windows XP installation CD, any version, you can
install it on any Dell with a matching XP certificate of authentication,
and you do not need to worry about entering in the product key, as you
would do with retail versions of XP.
Know about that and that the retail versions require activation.
Yes, Micro$oft ran out of COA product keys in the late days of SP2, so
they needed to come up with a new algorithm for generating the keys...
This is the part that I don't get.
OK say I have a machine from 03, this would have come out before MS ran
out of numbers.
Will the discs made AFTER the numbers changed still work without
activation? Just like the pre number change Dell OEM XP disc?
What I'm wondering is if the number change means that the later discs
can only be used on machines from the later time period, after the
numbers ran out.
Ben Myers
--
Steve W.
In my experience, though limited, time is not a "dimension" referenced
by an OEM disc. Only whether the BIOS is ID'd as being from a Dell.
If you use (for speedier install) a Dell SP3 disc in one that came
with SP1...it won't asked for any validation.

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Yep, and you can take a bog standard Dell XP CD from the early days of
XP, slipstream it so that it's bang upto date with all SP's and
patches, pop that into your CD drive and your Dell will cheerfully
install it without any protest at all.

Right. Because the secret codes that match the install to a Dell BIOS are carried forward during the slipstream operation... Ben
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