RE: [OT] Anyone heard of OEM-CD before?

["Tawn, Jonathan" <jonathan.tawn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,

Yeah - that's OEM software supplied with a branded machine, by the looks of
it, the software they are selling is what would be shipped to say; your
local friendly computer shops that could build a system for you.

When ie, dell receive the software, they add bits of code to detect
specific
hardware, and then add their own drivers for their hardware..

I'm sure that's how it works, but I could be wrong!
JT


Jonathan Tawn
EDS Desktop Services.


-----Original Message-----
From:	Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)
[mailto:haweste@xxxxxxx]
Sent:	Wednesday, 17 March, 2004 10:46
To:	ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject:	RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Anyone heard of OEM-CD
before?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tawn, Jonathan  Sent: 17 March 2004 10:37
>
> No, not heard of them before,
>
> IIRC, you can only ship OEM (original equipment
manufacture -
> I think..)
> software if you're a system builder or it has to acompany
some
> hardware...don't think its 'ok' to sell it on its own...
>
> Good prices though!!
>
> JT

Good prices indeed !

Watch out though. I don't know quite what's being sold here
but if, for e.g. you try to install your Dell OEM version of XP onto a
different brand of machine, it won't. Full stop. The OEM CD looks for
specific manufacturer info (presumably in the bios) and won't proceed if it
doesn't find it.

YMMV, but that was my experience.

Cheers,

Tim.

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