I've got a Dell OEM disk here that does not activate and I have used it on several different Dell's. real pisser fp
At 11:01 PM 8/31/2007, Rick Glazier Poked the stick with: >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. -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
