Okay My vista is now showing itself Activated, I had a HP Cert setup before I did this flash, does this mean I have it right now?
Have you installed any softmods (bootloader, etc)? These were asus slics, so do you mean activated from your mods?? I do not understand if you flashed one of these or not.. Softmods will screw the whole thing up so I have to ask.
I used the Wow5 boot disk but it only showed activated while using the disk so I figured this soft mod was temperary. I'm on a clean install with pretty much nothing, I can reinstall and see if the activation still stands...
you can uninstall the wow5 and install a asus cert, or I can make another mod for HP. clean install would require you to install a cert and serial. There should be an uninstall.bat or similar for the WOW5. Irregardless, you need to install the correct slic cert. I am guessing that if the vista is activating, it is from the wow disc, since I made asus mods..
just be make things clear for myself I did a HD wipe and i'm installing Vista at this moment, this is the MSDN OEM version of vista - post installation i should install the Asus cert and serial and if it activates then all is well?
Yep, If you want a hp slic, say so, and I will change it for later. We can see if asus works first, it is no biggie to change cert later and serial will probably stay the same.
I appreciate all your help so far, I'm very new to these concepts. What would someones reason be for wanting one Slic over another?
If you want to keep a machine one brand, and dual boot xp/vista, some slp1 strings are easier to input. HP will go in with a DMI editor and activate XP with oembios files and serial from HP. Dell is not that simple, but can be done. Some OEMs didn't initially, or don't offer ultimate. Gateway for example. Home premium is well and fine for most people, but they want ULTIMATE, some compensation thing Anyway, it boils down to preference, and I think ASUS was one of the first found to work, sooo Hard to break the paradigm once it has started and all want asus slics. They all work well, and if you don't dual boot, it doesn't matter IMHO.
Thanks! Well I just finished the installation and all is activated I can't thank you enough, you assistance has saved me countless hours. I don't dual boot so I should be good with my current Cert. Thanks so much for the help, your the best!