There are different types of OEM Windows disks.
(That makes this a hard topic to discuss...)
Dell (& big OEMs) use BIOS locked installs, and they never need activation.
The small White Box builders use something more like a "slightly limited"
version of the Retail disks (FPP), and they DO require activation...
(I run both -- FPP and small OEM types here...)
With a DELL BIOS upgrade, they include the BIOS lock stuff with the MB,
or the FLASH, or do not overwrite that part...
(Just like BootBlocks are "seldom?" overwritten by default,
(at least in my Award BIOSs...)
Rick Glazier
From: "FORC5"
so the sw id's the bios during install, how greedy is that. what about a bios
update.
At 07:17 PM 8/31/2007, tmservo:
Once mb bios identification tag changes, they consider that the end of the oem lic.
