Window Worries

[RollTide]

I am going to order my first mac tomorrow (imac). I have been a windows user forever, so thats no biggie, but I ordered the windows xp SP2 OEM version for the mac, and I was planning on using bootcamp. I heard that a few people ordered this, but I was chatting with a expert on apple.com and he said OEM versions will not work since it is attached to a certain PC.

But! If it is a new version shouldn't it work?? Newegg has it listed at like 90 bucks so it was a good deal any help is appreciated thanks.

 

[balamw]

I am going to order my first mac tomorrow (imac). I have been a windows user forever, so thats no biggie, but I ordered the windows xp SP2 OEM version for the mac, and I was planning on using bootcamp. I heard that a few people ordered this, but I was chatting with a expert on apple.com and he said OEM versions will not work since it is attached to a certain PC.

But! If it is a new version shouldn't it work?? Newegg has it listed at like 90 bucks so it was a good deal any help is appreciated thanks.

As has been stated to death, if you have a NEW OEM license, you should be fine, though that license will be forever tied to your Mac. You can't transfer an exisiting OEM license to your new Mac.

Boot Camp probably won't recognize the CD, but partition the drive and create the drives disc, boot the machine with the CD in the drive and hold down option, select the CD to boot from and do the install "manually".

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[jeremy.king]

OEM works - Boot Camp recognizes the disc fine too as its no different than the retail version.

Please do RTFM before and during your install to save yourself any future pains. After installing disable all the unknown devices in Device Manager to prevent BSOD.

 

[RollTide]

OEM works - Boot Camp recognizes the disc fine too as its no different than the retail version.

Please do RTFM before and during your install to save yourself any future pains. After installing disable all the unknown devices in Device Manager to prevent BSOD.

Thanks for the encouraging words, I don't know what RTFm, or BSOD is but I like to think i'm pretty tech savvy and that I will figure it out(I'll follow directions to a T) Any other helpful hints are deeply appreciated.

thanks guys

 

[jeremy.king]

Thanks for the encouraging words, I don't know what RTFm, or BSOD is but I like to think i'm pretty tech savvy and that I will figure it out(I'll follow directions to a T) Any other helpful hints are deeply appreciated.

thanks guys

RTFM

BSOD

 

[RollTide]

[QUOTE=kingjr3 RTFM

BSOD

Haha thanks for the slap. I just printed the instruction (17 pages, wow)
My imac is suppose to ship on 13th arrive on 19th, long processing time huh?

Thanks again guys

 

[jeremy.king]

Haha thanks for the slap. I just printed the instruction (17 pages, wow)
My imac is suppose to ship on 13th arrive on 19th, long processing time huh?

Thanks again guys

It wasn't meant as a slap...Just a word of advice. Too many people are posting questions already answered in the install guide, so I figured you wouldn't want the embarassment

 

[AVR2]

Just to confirm, I successfully installed an OEM version of XP on my MBP 17 last night using BootCamp. Haven't really done anything with it yet, bar a few Skype video calls.

 

[RollTide]

Thanks AVR, I will probably get windows monday or tuesday, but it will be a while before my imac gets here..... the wait