Hi guys New here please will try and sum this up...... a friend has given me his old pc to reinstall XP HOME or whatever onto it I tried XP Pro but I wasnt too happy with the WGA alerts and MSE was also complaining - I did get rid of them using various methods - not sure which method is the most current for this task too...... but im also just not comfortable giving the PC back as these WGA alerts could reappear...............so to sum up I would like it to be activated and genuine (if that makes sense) The PC has a COA licence sticker for Evesham for XP home Now I understand from what Ive read that I need to insert a SLP into the bios to get this working Ive done the bios slp checck using the oembios tool check and it says that there is no slp for over 100 bios or something along those lines Im just not sure of the next step Ive seen the thread AMI-Intel-BIOS-(Add-SLP1-0-w-o-modding) Now does this mean im adding a HP string or should I still use an evesham string - gets a bit confusing here to be honest The motherboard for info is a winfast 760M02-GX-6LSwhich I gather there isnt a modded bios file Ive also thought about using ANTIWAT but that Ive read is for last resort purposes Any guidance would be REALLY appreciated Thanks
Using that tool ive got Hewlett Packard come up CD4E1902 (ive been messing with the DMI - there was no info here when I checked earlier) I guess i now get that uncompressed from the bios archive and then use the changer??
Sorry to be a pain - yes Ive added the hp files now as there was no slp files earlier im pretty sure......anyway all seemed to go OK but still comming up to activate so something ive done isnt quite right When doing the OEMBIOSTEST now I have OEMBIOS.CAT CRC32=00A1EECB OEMBIOS.CAT CRC32=3BA155E1 OEMBIOS.CAT CRC32=CD4E1902 Thats it nothing else - no long hash type strings at all (I used the uncompressed files - not sure if that makes any difference) The tool says it should preactivate Windows XP then
Wierd it is not showing Hewlett Packard string you should have output similar to this mines is a dell machine.
Yes it does have the string Hewlett-Packard Company before those strings yes - sorry typing on another PC- cant copy and paste everything It shows in OEMBIOSTEST as F: Hewlett-Packard Company OEMBIOS.CAT CRC32=00A1EECB F: Hewlett-Packard Company OEMBIOS.CAT CRC32=3BA155E1 F: Hewlett-Packard Company OEMBIOS.CAT CRC32=CD4E1902 Just tried again using the compressed CD4E1902 as above and still comming up to activate windows in 30days after reboot Dont see where Im going wrong - seems to make more sense now
Yes and put them in either the compressed folder or uncompressed folder Ive tried both compressed and uncompressed just to see if makes a difference - placing just the four files in the respective compressed or uncompressed folders Seemed to go ok too and rebooted at the end - didnt see any errors anyway When unpacking the compressed file they are named differently ie OEMBIOS.BI_ OEMBIOS.CA_ OEMBIOS.DA_ OEMBIOS.SI_
Could it be this on the SLP check tool it says this HP & Compaq OEMBIOS.CAT CRC32=CD4E1902 Whereas in the other tool it says Hewlett Packard OEMBIOS.CAT CRC32=CD4E1902 Is it because of the mismatch maybe - not sure how to change that though
You need to specify in the changer the home install, the tattoo disc puts the correct string for "Hewlett-Packard" in the DMI. Running the changer puts the correct serial and the oembios files you have provided. On a side note..why not XP PRO??
Yeh I choose the Home install when running the changer Well just because he had XP home on there - I have a copy of XP Pro with SP3 Ive used previously - similar process for that too ???
And how do you know this is a clean installation or what he has previously tried to activate. Do clean installation then you know everything will be ok.
Beacuase Ive deleted all partitions previously off the disk and then reinstalled im going to try with XP Pro now - new install again If this fails as well is the AntiWat still the best method???
AntiWat is LAST RESORT oembios changer will work. Another point one of those partition could have been recovery partition won't matter now.