At 01:30 PM 8/9/2005, Marc Sims typed:
An OEM could resell the software if they were an authorized reseller
and repackage the product CD
in a jewelcase as long as they sold any piece of hardware with it such as
a HD unit for instance.
I've seen this practice done at computer shows all the time.
This completely contradicts what you posted to begin with.
You wrote
The retail and upgrade CD's for Window XP Pro will install over Win 98se.
The OEM
version's can't since the OEM cd's are bound directly to the OEM's machine
and are keyed to the OEM machine's BIOS and have all the drivers that are
necessary to be installed with the OEM's hardware base system.
OEM CDs are NOT locked to the system bios as a rule. Only the custom made
installation CDs of the large manufacturers are bios locked & it has
nothing to do with the fact that it's OEM. OEM CDs do NOT contain drivers
as that is something that maybe added by these large manufacturers as they
buy licenses not CDs. The only way that an OEM CD is "bound directly to the
OEM 's machine" is by license.
The OP [original poster] asked specifically about CDs from NewEgg. I can
guarantee the OEM CDs that are bought from NewEgg do NOT contain drivers &
are NOT bios locked as you stated.
The questions I posed were to try & get you to stop & THINK as I already
knew the answers. Sorry I forgot to put the word <rhetorical> after each
line in my post & I would've thought a person in your position also
would've known the difference.
While I want to thank you for having your name changed so it's not all in
caps there is still a problem with your quoting or more precisely your lack
of it.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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