Is Counterglow Down?

[The Mad Monk]

A little more detail on what I'm talking about:

The code entry form is compsoed of five boxes with room for five characters apiece, and I'm supposed to enter the code ignoring any hyphens; in addition, the background of the form shows a picture of the certificate, with "Code #: IIIII-IIIII-IIIII-IIIII-IIIII" clearly shown.

MY certificate has "Product ID: xxxxx-OEM-xxxxxx-xxxxx" (no I'm NOT going to post the actual digits, natch).

The certificate has the strip and the embossing; the computer is an NEC and was purchased new (five years ago), with all the packaging in place and the software envelope sealed.

[notyoueither]

You are installing WinXP?

[Dinner]

Lately, Counterglow has been going down more often then a $2 hooker.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Lately, Counterglow has been going down more often then a $2 hooker.

$2 is expensive in some countries.

[Ted Striker]

Somebody go get TCO

please

[Dinner]

TCO hangs out at that rightwing website which I shall not name.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by notyoueither
You are installing WinXP?

Nope, Windows 98, which is what the computer came with five years ago, and have been using to this day.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Somebody go get TCO

please

If he wants to be here, he has Ming's addy.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
Nope, Windows 98, which is what the computer came with five years ago, and have been using to this day.

98 is asking you for a 5x5?

98 didn't have a 5x5 code, AFAIK. Actually it did, but it was buried and not asked for from the end user. It should ask you for the string that you have. xxx-oem-xxxxxxx.

The other odd thing is that NEC didn't use the x-OEM-x codes, that I can recall.

That sounds like an oem windows license on a brand machine. Did you buy it new from the store?

[The Mad Monk]

Yeah, it was a major local electronics chain; I forget the name -- on the level of Best Buy, only locally based.

[notyoueither]

Did you get a white book about W98 with the label stuck on it on celophane?

[The Mad Monk]

How about Packard Bell? I have found clues, on occasion, that it was branded NEC, but built by Packard Bell.

[The Mad Monk]

I don't recall.

I'll have to look when I get home.

[The Mad Monk]

I think the manuals were all on disk -- the restore disk said it installed them, but needless to say I was unable to look.

[notyoueither]

NEC bought Packard Bell, and there were many a strange thing that happened after that consumation.

Let me know about the packaging of the CD that you got. Especially about where that label with the x-OEM-x is.