Re: XP OEM or XP Upgrade, Help With Decision Please


"Chris Whelan" <cawhelan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Bryan Bellis wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm about to build my son a new PC from parts I'm purchasing from
>> ebuyer.com and partly from his existing PC. I'm going to move him from
>> Windows 98 to XP of some variety, but which?
>>
>> If I get the OEM version of XP will I encounter any problems or
>> limitations, or should I just hand in the towel, stop being a penny
>> pinching old sod and just go a buy the XP Upgrade from e.g. PC World
>> or wherever?
>>
>> Advice much appreciated please.
>>
>
> My understanding is that there is more than one sort of OEM version.
>
> The one you can buy if you get a qualifying piece of hardware at the same
> time does not seem to be limited in any way. Certainly I have built a new
> box with none of the original parts, and my OEM version installed on the
> new box without difficulty. Because it was more than 120 days since it was
> first activated it was possible to activate normally over the 'net.
>
> However, the OEM version that would be supplied to you if you bought a
> machine from a large company is likely to be BIOS locked. It would only
> install to the original motherboard.
that's not true a HP or Dell or whatever branded coa and disk will install
on any machine laptop desktop as long as you have the correct COA, and if
you want you can install the same COA on several machines at once if you
wait a while in-between installs as I know several people who have done just
that


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