Microsoft and Dell have killed Tribes for me

[S']['U]

I was forced to reformat my game computer (Dell Latitude D620) recently, and I used the same master disc for reinstalling Windows XP that I've always used...
Now the idiots at Microsoft won't activate my OS because they say it's been used on too many computers already, which is horseshit because I'm trying to activate it on the same computer as before.
They suggested I call Dell.

I called Dell, and the first thing I told them was the model of the computer. The idiot there kept me on the phone for 20 minutes and needed to be told 5 more times that it was a Latitude D620 before he decided he should transfer me to the "Latitude department".
The next idiot need to have the problem re-explained to him 3 times before he understood what I needed to have done, and then he asked me for the "service tag" number, which I gave him. (It's displayed in the BIOS system info screen)

"I'm sorry, but we have no record of that number".

WTF? I didn't pull that number out of my ass. It's a fucking Dell number. Why don't they have it?

It seems that the only way I'm going to get my Tribes computer working again is to re-install XP from an actual Dell master disc.

Does anyone have one? ...or a better idea on how to get my OS activated again?

[DaJ4ck3L]

hmmmmmmmm, old tech they throw away lol.

['][']-[RiLL3R]

Better off just upgrading to a new system. Soon nothing will support Windows XP.

[TwilightSparkle]

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[virus]

I have XP Black if you want and iso.

I just installed Wine on Linux. Use Fedora..

[DESTROID]

Faz que nem aqui no Brasil, compra um PIRATA hahahaha


bye bye

[vistalize]

I doubt his comp has the capability to run win 7 or 8. Someone just burn him a bootleg version of xp

[S']['U]

I doubt his comp has the capability to run win 7 or 8.

True this.
Upgrading the OS is not an option.

Thanks for the PMs Crow and TwilightSparkle...
Although both of your solutions are for XP Professional, I'll still give them both a try.

[AnniDv6]

Maybe try just calling again tomorrow. You could have just gotten a new agent that had no idea what they were doing.

[Groove]

dells have a bios indicator (SLP) that matches up with a cert on the dell install CD so that you dont need to enter a key at all

but you can use any CD and then use Windows Loader by Daz to detect and insert the correct cert/oem key

you don't want to use the loader itself (which fools your system into thinking it has a bios marker - you probably already have one), u just wanna install the key/certs