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"Bezalel, I am not trying to pirate, just test my cd without having to burn a bunch of cds. I was attempting to do the same thing as FreeStyle. I didn't just add the string randomly, i replaced a current string. But besides that, you must have missed the part where I said i tried it on a Dell Computer, and Inspiron 5100 to be exact.  and it fails with the exact same problem, which is why i started working on vmware.  so does the MGADiag tool show anything useful to you guys that may be able to point me in the right direction? originally i used regular oem media, with the slp key/oembios files, and then I was able to get my hands on a Dell XP Home SP1 cd, that had the correct OEMBIOS files/ original winnt.sif and $OEM$ directory, etc.  I slipstreamed that to sp2. (I have not tried the original yet, to see if that would work). \n"
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