? About Dell branded disc's

[EQTitan]

Ok, I received a Dell branded disc from Ebay and I thought it was the retail upgrade. Will it work on my Custom built machine?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: EQTitan
Ok, I received a Dell branded disc from Ebay and I thought it was the retail upgrade. Will it work on my Custom built machine?

Nope, and the license isn't valid so you'd be arrr, walkin' the plank, me hearty :evil: Time to give that eBay seller a black eye in the feedback department.

 

[RebateMonger]

Selling a branded OEM CD and mis-representing it as a Retail Upgrade CD is fraud. As mechBgon points out, transferring a "used" OEM license to another PC is not allowed by Microsoft's licensing policy.

 

[RichUK]

All of the above + I?ve also tried to install an OEM Evesham copy of XP while trying to use an advent OEM product key ? no dice, it installs just fine but it won?t allow you to access anyof the user accounts apart from in safe mode.

 

[EQTitan]

ok, so this will only work on a Dell machine. To bad =(

 

[John]

Originally posted by: EQTitan
ok, so this will only work on a Dell machine. To bad =(

Nobody came close to saying that at all.

 

[bendixG15]

I got an idea .... why don't you just try and install it ???

 

[bruceb]

In theory and legally, it should not install, nor be installed on a Non-Dell PC as the this
is OEM Software, bought and licensed by Dell for their computes and customers.
You can try and install it and if it works, fine, but it would be technically, illegal use
of the software license code. If you know what to look for, you can change certain
files, so the cd does not check to see if it is being installed on a Dell. But we can't
give you the specifics here without getting in hot water.

 

[2canSAM]

Tried this with an XP SP2 Dell CD on my thinkpad. The thinkpad license is for XP but the intall media is only XP with no SP slipstreamed. It installed without even asking for a cd key but would not let me activate it. Kept saying my CD Key was invalid. Finally just went back and slipstreamed SP2 into my IBM CD

 

[RebateMonger]

Yeah. Basically, you can't use a Dell, IBM, or other name-brand Key to Activate online.

Microsoft changed that two years ago to help stop pirates from stealing large-OEM Keys and selling them to unsuspecting purchasers. You should NEVER have to Activate most brand-name OEM versions of XP. They are almost all SLP versions, meaning they use the BIOS signature to confirm that they are Dells, IBMs, etc. and don't require Activation when installed on the appropriate brand of PC.