Xp OEM Activation with SP2

[Mark Rose]

I have slipstreamed my copy of Xp Pro OEM with Service pack 2.
i have now formated my PCit all installs ok with the product key but when i
come to activate it it says product key is invalid. We have 20 copies of Pro
OEM (we build POS systems) but none will allow Activation yet if i try the
origianl CD it works fine.
So why is Service pack 2 disableing OEM activation when slip streamed

Mark

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

You'll need to contact your OEM supplier!!

 

[Dan Smith]

I have slipstreamed my copy of Xp Pro OEM with Service pack 2.
i have now formated my PCit all installs ok with the product key but when i
come to activate it it says product key is invalid. We have 20 copies of Pro
OEM (we build POS systems) but none will allow Activation yet if i try the
origianl CD it works fine.
So why is Service pack 2 disableing OEM activation when slip streamed

Mark

That's because MS wants to make people think they have, what MS deems
"illegal", in what they have in XP software, so it disables it, with the
hopes that the they (people in your exact situation now) will go out and
purchase a full retail version of XP.

If your OEM cannot help you, MS won't because they do not support OEMs
without pay per incident support. Even if you pay them, you won't get
any farther than you already have.

 

[Morituri-Max]

I have slipstreamed my copy of Xp Pro OEM with Service pack 2.
i have now formated my PCit all installs ok with the product key but when i
come to activate it it says product key is invalid. We have 20 copies of Pro
OEM (we build POS systems) but none will allow Activation yet if i try the
origianl CD it works fine.
So why is Service pack 2 disableing OEM activation when slip streamed

As Will and Dan pointed out you're more than likely screwed in that situation.
Have you tried just copying the sp2 to a seperate disk, then install the xp
windows as normal and follow up with the sp2? Seems to me the best workaround.

 

[Mark Weinreb]

I have slipstreamed my copy of Xp Pro OEM with Service pack 2.
i have now formated my PCit all installs ok with the product key but when
i
come to activate it it says product key is invalid. We have 20 copies of
Pro
OEM (we build POS systems) but none will allow Activation yet if i try the
origianl CD it works fine.
So why is Service pack 2 disableing OEM activation when slip streamed

Mark

Wild stab in the dark time here.
As we all know, the product keys are tied to the type of Windows XP, so that
OEM keys only work with OEM copies and retail keys only work with retail
copies. Maybe by slipstreaming SP2 into your OEM copy of XP Pro OEM, it has
become, to all intents and purposes, a retail copy. Therefore your OEM keys
no longer work. It would be interesting to know what would happen if you
tried a retail XP Pro key.

If I'm right, then this is something that Microsoft needs to address before
too many slipstreamed OEM coasters are made.

Stab in the dark, I know, but others have reported the same problem and it's
the only explanation I can think of at the moment. If someone in the same
situation could try a retail key and let us know what happens?

 

[Guest]

Dan,

Your answer is quite inaccurate. Microsoft is capable of generating OEM
product keys. Its really just a matter of calling and usually in Activation
cases it is deemed as free support on the issue(No $35 charge for OEM
support).
Sorry to ruin your day.

 

[Will Denny]

Wild stab in the dark time here.
As we all know, the product keys are tied to the type of Windows XP, so
that OEM keys only work with OEM copies and retail keys only work with
retail copies. Maybe by slipstreaming SP2 into your OEM copy of XP Pro
OEM, it has become, to all intents and purposes, a retail copy. Therefore
your OEM keys no longer work. It would be interesting to know what would
happen if you tried a retail XP Pro key.

If I'm right, then this is something that Microsoft needs to address
before too many slipstreamed OEM coasters are made.

Stab in the dark, I know, but others have reported the same problem and
it's the only explanation I can think of at the moment. If someone in the
same situation could try a retail key and let us know what happens?

Hi

OEM CDs aren't meant to be slipstreamed. An original XP CD is needed.

 

[kurttrail]

Hi

OEM CDs aren't meant to be slipstreamed. An original XP CD is needed.

Says who?

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[Dick Kistler]

Says who?

What information do you have?

Or, do you have some information that indicates different?

 

[Tom]

Says who?

Says the epitome of a microsoldier !

 

[Mark Rose]

It slipstreams fine and installs ok with the product key it just falls over
on the activation.
i would have thought it should fail on installation.

Mark

 

[Chuck]

Which SP2 version was used? Just because an OEM version is involved, that
should not cause a failure. It sounds like something is not quite right with
the copies. (Or, the oem configuration was not set up properly.) There used
to be an area in MSDN and the Tecnet for registered OEM/VARs that had
information on things like this. (Got out of that business more or less last
year.)

 

[kurttrail]

What information do you have?

Or, do you have some information that indicates different?

Well I slipstreamed SP1 into OEM media. I don't know about SP2, that's why
I asked.

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[kurttrail]

It slipstreams fine and installs ok with the product key it just
falls over on the activation.
i would have thought it should fail on installation.

Were you offered a choice to do phone activation? If so, do it.

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[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

Total Garbage - my OEM Cd's slipstreamed fine, clean installed back on the
original PC's and reactivate with no problem. 2 Dell Workstations, 1 Dell
desktop and 1 laptop - all with Dell OEM XP CD's, all were slipstreamed with
SP1 back a few years, all were slipstreamed with SP2.
Note to original Poster - you did start with the original OEM CD, not a
slipstreamed OEM with SP1, I tried that and got the same results as you -
would install fine, but would not activate. It seems slipstreaming SP2 into
a CD that had SP1 slipstreamed into it does NOT work, at least from OEM
standpoint, but slipstreaming SP2 into an original XP OEM (no SP) works
fine.

 

[Dave]

Hi

Star_Fleet_Admiral: I'm having the same problems with activation. I
slipstreamed my original XP Home OEM CD with the network install of SP2 and
everything went well. I installed from the newly created CD and entered my
CD key and setup/install went ahead without problems, but when I went to
activate it online, I got a message saying something like 'the key is
unauthorised' (which it is clearly not), so re-activation failed.

Of course I can call Microsoft and have it activated but I should be able to
do it online just as you and many others have and I can't understand why it
won't work.

The only thing I can think of is that I created the ISO with CDIMAGE and
chose the date of creatation as the timestamp. I.e.

CLS
@echo off
TITLE Setting UP ISO Image
ECHO.
ECHO Removing Any Possible Attributes Set On C:\winxp And Its SubFolders...
attrib -R -H C:\wxp /S /D
ECHO.
ECHO Creating ISO Image...
CDIMAGE.EXE -lWXHOEM_EN -t08/08/2004,20:30 -h -m -n -x -bxpboot.img C:\WXP
C:\WXHOEM_EN.ISO
ECHO.
PAUSE
EXIT

Do you think that the 'timestamp' may be the problem in my case anf if so,
what should it be?
(Note: The files in the i386 dir of the original oem cd are dated 18 August
2001).

Regards