Subj : Win2K SP2 Install "Proble
To   : Digital Man
From : Daemon
Date : Sun Aug 21 2005 10:17 pm

  Re: Win2K SP2 Install "Proble
  By: Digital Man to MIKE POWELL on Sun Aug 21 2005 11:20 am

 > The verification is of the GUID (globally unique identifier) which is stored
 > the SMBIOS (system management basic input output system) table, which cannot
 > changed. If there's a way to bypass this verification check, I don't know it

  I can't think of one, myself.  I had to approach the problem from the
opposite direction a while back, where the machine itself refused to stop
declaring itself a Dell machine until I killed the BIOS and gave it a new one.
(It made something stupid along the way of an OS installation difficult.  I
don't remember exactly what it was, but I seem to recall the installation
being stymied entirely because of it.)

  Dell's like that.  Their systems are only "correctable" within rigid confines
created to mask the fact that they're extraordinarily bad at putting components
together that belong together, where one component doesn't exceed the
capabilities of another for cost-effectiveness.

  Hate to say it, but the disk is probably absolutely worthless.


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