老革命碰到新問題. XP activation woes

Just installed Dell laptop's OEM XP on my desktop yesterday. It asks me to activate this XP within 30 days.... I scrambled to find a valid 5x5 serial number from the Internet, and then it gives out a long string of digits and asks to call customer service for a 7x5 serial number. This is extremely painful. Any suggestion to beat this problem?

As a matter of fact two days ago, I also installed it on a second Dell laptop (very old one), it makes no noise whatsoever. Upgrade to SP2 was smooth too. So should I install this OEM XP on my DEll desktop and later ghost it over to other non-Dell PCs? Any help is appreciated

Heartbroken here.

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• why bother? -justcallM$- ♀ (190 bytes) () 08/08/2005 postreply 10:11:37

• Of course it bothers me -大龍蝦- ♂ (403 bytes) () 08/08/2005 postreply 10:46:32

• 兩台機器用一個軟件就算是盜版了 -這可沒辦法救- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/08/2005 postreply 12:10:36

• 回複：Of course it bothers me -CutOnce- ♀ (442 bytes) () 08/08/2005 postreply 14:40:48

• They don't care. I've done -Grant- ♂ (217 bytes) () 08/08/2005 postreply 21:16:42

• 回複：老革命碰到新問題. XP activation woe -michaelliu- ♂ (105 bytes) () 08/08/2005 postreply 17:52:47

• 聽說免激活一旦升級到SP2它又會來煩你？ -大龍蝦- ♂ (21 bytes) () 08/09/2005 postreply 10:35:22