Re: Activate XP fails (Out of Box Experience) - catch 22

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"Eric Powell" <EricPowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm having the same or similar problem:
Changed Mainboard due to hardware failure. Windows says hardware changed,
need to re-activate. I say ok go for it.
On first time (during startup/logon) it gives msoobe.exe at 0x7726381c
referenced 0x00000000 and the memory can't be written.
If I try to Activate during windows, Activation program will not start and
fails with Microsoft Out of Box Experience has encountered a problem ...
msoobe.exe offset 0000381c

Windows XP Pro OEM. System was built 6 mos ago, MB failed and was
replaced
with a different board. Did a Repair Install during startup process.

Everything else with windows and applications seems ok. It just wants to
activate and can't. WGA fails also because it isn't activated.

On the web I saw many references to a problem with IE7. Remove it and
this
problem goes away. The problem is that I believe that IE7 was installed
on
this system before Windows Repair Install, now there is no trace of it,
and I
cann't reinstall/uninstall it because it requires WGA which requires
activation, but I can't activate because IE7 is installed (at least
partially) and I can't uninstall (it isn't in the list) and I can't
install
and ad infinitum.

Microsoft support says they can't support OEM copy, the manufacturer must
support, and since I'm the manufacturer, then I'm stuck.

Any Ideas?
--eric


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Eric Powell
epic&at&pobox.com
EPIC Consulting
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"tcarp" wrote:


1. Try repairing the registry entries for the .DLL files used by
activation:

Use Start- Run and enter the following text in the dialog box:
regsvr32.exe regwizc.dll

Then do it again with the following text:
regsvr32.exe licdll.dll

2. Launch activation manually. Use Start - Run and enter:
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /A

Had tried this before. Still crashes.

3. If it still crashes, look in Event Viewer (right-click My Computer
and select Manage) for an error or warning event with a matching date
and time stamp.
Pretty vague error report. Type error, category none, file faultrep.dll

Tom


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