Often OEM PCs such as those from Dell, HP, etc will show a different product
key installed than the one on the COA, this is perfectly normal as they use
an image to load the drive with some type of OEM volume key, use the key
that nlite found, not the key on the sticker.

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"leoliver" <leoliver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have my original Dell WinXP Sp1a reinstall disk, that was shipped with
> my computer , that already had Windows XP Pro installed. And the product
> key
> is found on a sticker on my computer's case.
> When I recently used the nlite program, to slipstream my original install
> disk, with the SP3 update , I noticed that nlite displayed a different
> product key number, for the slipstreamed build.
> Which brings me to ask, if I should manually input the original product
> key into the slipstreamed build , or does each progressive service pack
> update have a different product key number , than prior service pack
> builds ?
>
> This is very impotent , because if a incorrect product key number is
> inputed into the slipstream build , it would fail to reinstall Windows
> when
> needed.
> Thanks !
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> your friend,
> Larry