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Dell OEM giving issues - Activation not valid?

  • 08-04-2007 9:23am
    #1
    chrislad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭


    Hey, friends of mine bought a Dell laptop and gave me a Vista CD. I'm not sure if they are using Vista still as they didn't seem too fond of it and had asked me for my XP CD. I also have a Dell PC so it's not a BIOS issue.

    Basically about 2 months ago, I turned on my PC to get the following box at logon, quoting

    The Windows Vista Home Premium product key you typed in invalid for activation.

    It then goes on to give me 3 options, to buy a new key, re-enter my old key (none of the keys on the DELL box or CD match the correct format) or to contact Dell, which doesn't work.

    Any ideas on what I can do to fix it? I fixed it last time by doing a reinstall but I don't feel like doing reinstalls every 2 months!


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
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    chrislad wrote:
    Hey, friends of mine bought a Dell laptop and gave me a Vista CD.
    ...
    It then goes on to give me 3 options, to buy a new key, re-enter my old key (none of the keys on the DELL box or CD match the correct format) or to contact Dell, which doesn't work.
    Unless he also gave you a license it ain't legit to install it.

    If it was a DELL CD then it's an OEM so not legit on any other PC.

    That is the beauty of the OEM license, you can't move it from the PC it was supplied with.

    Since you don't have a valid license you are stuck with option two buy a new key

    Please read the charter especially the bit about software you own.


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