OEM Manufacturer oembios files

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  1. colinzim

    colinzim MDL Senior Member

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    Thanks offon7544,
    I've always been able to find the file,
    What I'm trying to extract the oembios.bin file, not the rar that is on my hardrive to make the files I need for the MSI Pro. I tried a few programs and they say not a valid archive. I know I'm missing something here, I've been at this for awhile.
     
  2. offon7544

    offon7544 MDL Expert

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    You try to extract/open the oembios.bin ? if this, we can't.
     
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  3. colinzim

    colinzim MDL Senior Member

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    #63 colinzim, Mar 1, 2009
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    I have these MSI files

    Oembios.cat
    oembios.sig
    oembios.dat
    oembios.bin

    need to make =

    -DPCDLL.DL_
    -OEMBIOS.BI_
    -OEMBIOS.DA_
    -OEMBIOS.SI_
    -OEMBIOS.CA_
    -SETUPREG.HIV

    don't know how,
    should I rename files ?
    getting errors 'setup cannot continue'
    (making coasters)
     
  4. offon7544

    offon7544 MDL Expert

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    Use the "makecab" command
    ex: makecab oembios.cat
     
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  5. colinzim

    colinzim MDL Senior Member

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    Can you explain,
    I just want to know HOW to do this !
    Is there a 10 word limit ?
    :mad:
     
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  7. urie

    urie Moderator
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    @ 911medic, I wanted to try to explain on earlier on didn't have time had to work:mad: I was gonna point to eXPander over on MSFN i,e drag and drop if you know what i mean but you have explained. colinzim through lack of knowledge thought it was just a case of renaming the files and who else here would have done the same I would have if i didn't know, we also know the oem bios files we download are uncompressed. I still cant understand that but it is not my bios repository. I maybey wrong here but i have never tried making an OEM CD/DVD with files uncompressed i am almost certain it does still work.
     
  8. colinzim

    colinzim MDL Senior Member

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    #68 colinzim, Mar 2, 2009
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    Thanks guys !

    All is fine, except after install, asks to activate
    Copied to I386 - XP Pro SP3 OEM
    MSI Files from above link + royalty key
    -OEMBIOS.BI_
    -OEMBIOS.DA_
    -OEMBIOS.SI_
    -OEMBIOS.CA_
    -Winnt.sif
    -OOBEINFO.IN_
     
  9. 911medic

    911medic MDL Guru

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    CAB these, and only these. Add only these plus the winnt.sif to the install ISO.

    You did change the setupp.ini??
    It needs to be this:

    [Pid]
    ExtraData=786F687170637175716954806365EF
    Pid=76487OEM


    Where did you get the key?
     
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  11. offon7544

    offon7544 MDL Expert

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    CRC of oembios files are the same that files from oembios.net ?
     
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  12. colinzim

    colinzim MDL Senior Member

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    #73 colinzim, Mar 2, 2009
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    My Bad

    :eek::eek::eek:It turns out after taking medic911's advice I ran OEMBIOS.EXE and found that the notebook has a Fujitsu SLP string. So I skipped the obvious and put you people (sorry) and myself thru alot of (maybe) un-necessary time. Thank you all for the help, I learned ALOT in these hours. I used the method of XP OEM SLP1.0 "Repair Installation" CD and converted the VLK I had replaced back in the notebook to Fujitsu OEM.
    Thank You for teaching me how to compress cab files, I know I will I definitely need to do that in the future !
    Last method of dropping
    oembios.ca_
    oembios.si_
    oembios.da_
    oembios.bi_
    winnt.sif
    onto the XP OEM disc probably would have worked had there been slp string !!!!
    Installed fine just no activation
     
  13. urie

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    @ colinzim, excellent you got it going oembios.exe by severach is a god send in these situations.
     
  14. offon7544

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    I found some interesting things, anyone have informations about this :

     
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  15. colinzim

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    #76 colinzim, Mar 10, 2009
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    A Curious Question

    I had an LG Notebook to install XP on. I modified a Dell XP Pro SP3 OEM cd image by adding the LG oembios files

    -OEMBIOS.BI_
    -OEMBIOS.DA_
    -OEMBIOS.SI_
    -OEMBIOS.CA_
    and WINNT.SIF

    During install it I had to enter the Dell key NOT the LG OEM key (invalid key error).
    XP is installed and activated with the Dell OEM key ??

    I'm happy but confused:rolleyes:
     
  16. offon7544

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    You can use a Dell key for HP oembios files....
     
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  17. urie

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    You don't happen to be using OOBEINFO.INI with ProductKey in it if so remove it. if you have key in winnt.sif.
     
  18. HSChronic

    HSChronic MDL Expert

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    you don't have to go to the trouble of reinstalling windows or making an OEM CD if you used an OEM CD to install with in the first place. It doesn't matter if it is generic, dell, hp or whoever. Just make a directory in the folder where you have oembios.exe (for instance a dell computer you would make a dell folder), and drop the OEM Bios files in there. Then run the oembios.exe program and it will replace the files in the windows directory for you. Next time you reboot if the files match the SLP string in the BIOS are you good to go. I used to do this with images at my last job since I had HP, Dell, and a few Lenovo machines, I just made a batch file to run OEMBIOS while installing apps, and it worked like a charm.
     
  19. colinzim

    colinzim MDL Senior Member

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    #80 colinzim, Mar 10, 2009
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    Hello,
    I did NOT use OOBEINFO.INI and is not on disc, just dropped the four oemfiles + winnt in disc image. Not a big problem, just wondering why the error.
    Thanks,
    colinzim