Aha, offcourse! VLK to OEM I supply the OEMBIOS files myself. OEM to VLK contains the OEMBIOS.BIN file which is pretty large. Understood.
I think i stumbled onto something interesting on a Chinese forum. According to them (or what i could understand), the following files need to be replaced on a VLK to make it OEM: Files from OEM: ACC_DIS.CH_ ACCESSIB.CH_ DPCDLL.DL_ EULA.TXT IESUPP.CH_ IEWEBHLP.CH_ OEMBIOS.BI_ OEMBIOS.CA_ OEMBIOS.DA_ OEMBIOS.SI_ PIDGEN.DLL SETUPP.INI SUPP_ED.CH_ And for VLK to FPP (Full Packaged Product (Retail Version)) Files from FPP: DPCDLL.DL_ OEMBIOS.BI_ OEMBIOS.CA_ OEMBIOS.DA_ OEMBIOS.SI_ PIDGEN.DLL SETUPP.INI In SETUPP.INI just change the 3 last numbers of the PID to OEM. Keeping the rest of the numbers as is, ensures you identify the right language version.
VLK Conversion files By Magistr (EVC) e.B.O.L.A..v.I.R.U.S..c.R.E.W..2.o.o.1 _-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_-_ _-_-_-_ _-_-_-_ i.s..p.r.o.u.d..t.o..p.r.e.s.e.n.t WINDOWS XP FINAL 2600 PROFESSIONAL, HOME, OEM 1) extract your ISO of Windows XP or copy entire Windows XP CD into a HD folder (enable hidden files view) 2) go to folder \i386 of your installation and put here the corpfiles (overwriting the existing ones) as following: DPCDLL.DL_ substitute EULA.TXT do not substitute! (ignore it) NT5INF.CA_ do not substitute! (ignore it) OEMBIOS.BI_ substitute OEMBIOS.CA_ do not substitute! (ignore it) OEMBIOS.DA_ substitute OEMBIOS.SI_ substitute PIDGEN.DLL substitute SETUPP.INI substitute SETUPREG.HIV substitute WIN9XUPG\WIN95UPG.INF do not substitute! (ignore it) After that copy the file WINNT.SIF into \i386 folder if you don't want to be asked for a serial number during installation.
It got half way through and said the serial number was incorrect Checked against the HP one and it was fine. Bios is all HP'd up and the oem vlk xp was recreated from a 9-in-1 cd, so not sure what went wrong, any ideas? Thanks
Hi guys, I have been trying to activate xp on my computer for over a year now by reading different methods of oem activation but all in vain. I have got this slp string searcher(attached below) and did a slp string search it says i have "HP PAVILION" and "HEWLETT" for xp and "HEWLETT-PACKARD" for server2003(i have posted the screen-shots of their output below) is present on my bios, i even got the appropriate bios files like 06D652A4 and CD4E1902 from oembios.net and tried restoring with the above provided tools yesterday but no luck. I even tried replacing bios files in i386 folder of xp by compressing them and doing a clean install but its not getting activated.I don't know what i am doing wrong. Please help me out guys. any help will be greatly appreciate. Thanks.
I forgot to mention that my notebook is a oem hp-compaq which came with vista homebasic version still i would like to prefer xp a lot and i have the oem slp string for xp on my notebook along side the vista slp 2.0 string . so please help me. thanks in advance.
try running oembios.exe you will find it on these forums that will tell you the correct bios files you need then we can tell you what key
I ran that too i downloaded the files specified by it. You can see my third screen shot down in the row in previous post. It is output of the oembios.exe.I even tried many different oem activation restoring tools but its not getting activated. But vista is getting activated when i try oem activation method without any hassle.Is there some thing problem with my bios?? Please check my screen-shot of oembios.exe and point me towards the right files and procedure. Thanks.