Ghosted Windows XP build won\'t boot

[yuliu]

I have to ghost several kinds of PCs with the same WindowsXP image.  The 2 kinds of Dell PCs (350mhz and 233mhz)are working fine.  but the kind I\'m working on is Unisys PII300mhz.  I ghosted the drive and put in the Unisys PC, it doesn\'t boot, gives me the blue death screen with a stop error.  I heard that different processor speed matters when you ghost Windows XP, is it true? is there a way to solve this blue death screen ?  I would like to not to build each kind of machine from scratch. any ideas?  thanks.

[Tracky110XP]

what blue screen are you working with?

another question is are they all working on the same HAL on a clean install of Windows XP?

good luck on this one.

[Anonymous]

The hardware config for both PCs must be the same.

[Anonymous]

The hole point of winXP as far as coping goes is so you can\'t

WinXP home WinXP pro

1 copy activated = 1 computer

XP looks at what hardware its on and generates a key (for want of a better word) from numbers it finds on different hardware it finds in the machine.

It will check this key against the hardware if it doesn\'t match
it doesn\'t work...

If the hardware is the same you \"may?\" get away with it

This will also change as you add new hardware at some point if the hardware changes enough you will get locked out or with SP1 installed you get 3 days to re Activate then it locks you out.

So a ghost image will have the details of the orginal machine it was installed on embedded in it.

You can install as many times as you like from the orginal CD BUT you will have to Activate it after 30 days each time.

Which will ofcourse require you to PAY for it.

Thats putting it simply and is not accurate to how it works totally.

There are sites that explain this in more detail , I don\'t have a link handy

As far as M$ is concerned 1 copy 1 computer

Anti piracy measure

Except if you by a corp Edition lic agreement whatever $$$$$$$$$$$$

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[The_Flames]

actually its one licence , one computer . As you can buy extra licences from MS at a reduced rate if you own a original copy. This is when regestering your software makes sence. if you have 5 \'XP\' products you can have a discount. ie Win XP x 2 , Word XP x2 and Excel XP. would cost you less to get if you went through a MS approved channel http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[starfire1]

I stand corrected http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />
Thanks Flames
your right, thats the way I should have put it

As for the discount for extra I don\'t know how much $$$
(yes I did think they would , and so they should http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' /> )