Hi Guys, I've got an old Acer 3000 laptop with a windows xp home COA on the base. I've had to replace the hard drive and I used a new Windows XP Home SP3 install disk. It refused to use the COA on the base so I checked online and found a COA code that was accepted. My plan was to install it then change the licence to the genuine one on the base. I've completed the install etc and selected to activate windows but it fails and refuses to let me use the genuine code on the base. What should I do? I dont have a genuine Acer install disc and I dont really want to reinstall etc. Any ideas?
9 times out of 10 the key on the bottom never works, you need to call up MS to register it. It should have tried to go online to activate, fail then offer you to call up MS. Done this before and never had a problem. You tell them you re-installed Windows and used the key on the bottom of the laptop. Otherwise you need to activate with the correct oembios set like urie suggests.
You also need correct version of xp home you need OEM not Retail. + OEM:SLP key. but this can be sorted by just editing the setupp.ini Code: [Pid] ExtraData=786F687170637175716954806365EF Pid=76477OEM
I've wanted to install XP for ages! Will I be able to activate it with this tool after it's support life ends?
Idk, I always thought that when it's support ends all of it's features (like updating, activating ect) would end too
OEM:SLP activation is offline. So when MS closes activation servers for XP, it doesn't affects OEM:SLP activation.
i think the blogger has the same problem i had. i download windows xp home here from the repository and my key ( valid) was not accepted, so i use this link from MS a tool from Microsoft to change the product key. and it solve my problem. my pc is no more asking for activation.my problem was that my key was OEM, and the download i made was not for OEM.
Even today I managed to activate a XP Home Edition fully updated until August 2013, I needed to convert the retail to OEM, see if my laptop bios was compatible with any table here, made the setupp.ini change and the respective Oembios files, burn it, and voila, now I have a fully pre activated XP Home Edition ready for Toshiba Laptops, way better than install a third party hack that fools the system that is activated.