I am trying to get this MultiOEM DVD to work with a old HP L2000 server I have, The OEMBIOS.EXE files returns the following info. Windows XP OEMBIOS Test v1.1/269/106 (C) 2007-2010 severach @ msfn forums F:HP & Compaq OEMBIOS.CAT CRC=CD4E1902 These Royalty OEM install CD's should preactivate (SLP) on your system. Lines starting with E: are not reliably detected when running under Windows Press Enter! But the install fails to find any activation files for it. Wonder if anyone can shine some light on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your response. I have built the DVD using the instructions above, including the updates and driver packs. All the oembios files were downloaded and copied to the appropriate folders before burning the DVD. They were downloaded from the link is provided in your instructions. The funny thing is that this same DVD that I used on the HP L2000 server machine worked flawlessly with a genuine HP d220MT workstation with SLP 1.0 in BIOS, and an old AMD machine that I tattooed with the DMI Boot CD. Hence my confusion.
Ok, here is the output. Offset Valid Address Range SLP OEM String 000EF71D 000E0000 - 000EFFFE Hewlett 000EF756 000E0000 - 000EFFFE Hewlett 000EF788 000E0000 - 000EFFFE Hewlett 000F3C65 000F0000 - 000FFFFE Hewlett 000F3CE6 000F0000 - 000FFFFE Hewlett 000F3D1E 000F0000 - 000FFFFE Hewlett Here is a link to the complete image. www (dot) advantagepc-tech (dot) com/screen1 (dot) jpg
For activating Server 2003 on a PC via OEM Method,you must have the full Hewlett-Packard SLP String in the Bios.I guess you have just Hewlett in your bios which is enough for activating XP but not Windows Server 2003...So you have to first tatoo your bios with Hewlett-Packard or any other valid SLP String for Server 2003
Bummer. Then I'm gonna be crap out of luck. From what I understand from my reading. It is not a simple task to tattoo a Phoenix BIOS. Which is the BIOS type the HP server has. Thanks for all your help.
I have tested what i claimed above... basically this introduces a bug in OEMSCAN as it seem it ignores the second set if the first set entry is not found, i would have guessed the proper way for OEMSCAN to work would be try testing for a SLP string in specified range, if not found skip to next SLP entry in oemscan.ini and try again. A workaround for this bug would be listing it as below: Code: [HPQOE] PATH=".\oemfiles\HPQOEM\FBE12C4B\" RANGE="0x000FE840:6" [HPQOEM] PATH=".\oemfiles\HPQOEM\D05D250E\" RANGE="0x000FE049:6"
Hello from Germany! Is there a guide to make an SBS 2003 Standard Server ISO/DVD in the same way? Can I use the same OEMBIOS-Files? Whats about an DELL SBS2003 R2 key, any1 aroubnd to help me out in this case? Best regards Peter