Re: XP KEY Will not work

You think you might be able to help me? I have a tablet pc with a product

key, but I have a retail version of the software. This is a gateway pc. I

have no restore disks and the original hard drive was damaged and had to be

replaced. Gateway does not offer restore cd's for this and only have the

retail one (like I have) to send to me (that does not even have the sata

drivers to where I can even install windows on the computer). I know how to

change the PID # inside the setupp.ini file, but not sure what it needs to

be. Between trying to get the installation to recognize the hard drive and

trying to figure out what the pid value needs to be to match this Product

Key, I have went through about 30 cd's. (starting to get old!!) The only

number I found on the sticker with the same format (xxxxx-yyy-zzzzzzz-zzzzz)

as you described is 00045-173-167-253 and it does not match it exactly as you

can see. The only other number bseide the product key is sideways X11-45380.

Think anyone can help me with this?

"Daave" wrote:

> T wrote:

> > The other cd is an OEM Home cd a friend of mine ordered with a hard

> > drive not long after xp came out, it is a full install. I tried it

> > earlier this morning. This whole thing has been me trying to find out

> > which cd this OEM key on the laptop works with. All of these

> > different cd's have just been me trying to get one of them to accept

> > the key. I am not going to buy another license as I have one on the

> > bottom of the laptop. In the past I have used the OEM cd I have and

> > the factory codes on My compaq my Sister in-laws dell and an hp to

> > reload them. I have also loaded others using a generic OEM cd. This

> > is the only one I have ever ecountered that won't work with any of

> > them. I am beginning to suspect that the code may be misprinted and

> > has never worked. The label is absolutely perfect, even has the

> > Holograms. The Retail and the alleged VLM as well as the older CD are

> > irrelevant as I know the OEM SP2 cd is generic.

> >

> > I really appreciate the replies, I am out of cd's to try:)

>

> The OS installation CD needs to match the type represented by the PID.

> Look at the PID on your laptop sticker. Which type of XP is it?

>

>

> (From http://wiki.djlizard.net/Product_IDs :)

>

> Microsoft uses various Product IDs to identify variants of the Windows

> platform. A Windows product ID (currently, as of XP/2003/Vista) has the

> following format: xxxxx-yyy-zzzzzzz-zzzzz

>

>

> 'xxxxx' -- the Microsoft Product Code

> The xxxxx section is the Microsoft Product Code, which in this case

> describes the platform, build, and version of Windows. Other product IDs

> with the same format, such as those found in Microsoft Office (and many

> other Microsoft products), serve the same purpose.

>

> Microsoft Product Code list

>

> 55274 : XP Pro generic OEM

> 55276 : XP Pro (upgrade)

> 55276 : XP Home (?) ?

> 55277 : XP Home generic OEM

> 55285 : XP Pro ?

> 55661 : XP Pro (retail)

> 76475 : XP Home (upgrade) (?)

> 76477 : XP Home Royalty OEM ?

> 76481 : XP Pro Dell OEM

> 76487 : XP Media Center Edition 2005

> 76487 : XP Pro Royalty OEM ?

> 76487 : XP Pro volume license (with '640' channel ID)

> 76500 : XP MCE 2005 (which is XP Pro with no domain capability)

> 76588 : XP Pro x64 OEM

> 55372 : XP Home - German (OEM)

> 55375 : XP Pro - German (VLK)

> 55677 : XP Home - Dutch

> 55679 : XP Pro - Dutch

> 76392 : XP Pro - Danish

> 76396 : XP Pro (also Home?) - Dutch

> 76412 : XP Home - French (OEM)

> 76413 : XP Pro - French (OEM)

> 76440 : XP Pro - Norwegian (retail)

> 76460 : XP Home - Spanish (Royalty OEM) ?

> 76470 : XP Home - Traditional Chinese (Royalty OEM) ?

>

> Notes:

>

> ? : DjLizard has an English version of XP Home upgrade that uses 55285,

> and XP Professional Upgrade that uses 55276.

> ? : Royalty OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) means manufacturers

> that are special to Microsoft's endearing heart. They get their own

> private key and generated product keys that typically don't require

> activation (or are different than the product key on the COA sticker

> affixed to the computer). Certain big OEMs [Dell, Gateway, HP, Compaq,

> and more] are Royalty OEMs, and the little guys (your local mom + pop

> store) are obviously not. The mom + pop stores get 55277 for Home and

> 55285 for Pro. Typically, generic OEM discs (such as 55277 and 55274)

> will work on these systems, but activation will often fail -- you will

> have to call Microsoft's activation hotline and speak to a

> representative in order to activate Windows. This usually only takes a

> few minutes.

>

> 'yyy' -- the Channel ID

> This section of the PID describes the channel (OEM, Volume License,

> Retail, bundle/Not For Resale) a given XP CD/system has come from.

>

> Channel ID list

>

> 000 : Other (includes some retail, upgrade and evaluation versions)

> 007 : FIXME : Retail

> 009 : Not for resale - bundle

> 011 : Upgrade (XP Home?)

> OEM : OEM (This does not specify royalty or normal OEM)

> 270 : Volume License

> 296 : MSDN

> 308/347 : Microsoft Action Pack subscription

> 335 : Retail

> 640 through 652 : Volume License (usually generated via 270 CID in

> setupp.ini)

> 699 : Volume Windows XP Tablet Edition

> 071 : FIXME : Unknown.

>

> NOTE: According to DjLizard.net visitor Catalyst, newer discs now check

> to see if the CD's volume label matches the type of CD you have. So if

> you make a CD with the wrong volume label, then it still won't work. I

> haven't been able to confirm this because most of my CDs have a custom

> label and all of them work fine thus far. Visit TACKtech to see a list

> of volume labels.

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