Quoted from Bâshrat the Sneaky (of
driverpacks.net):
I started these DriverPacks because I wanted to achieve a Uniform UXPCD. Why in the world would you want support for all available hardware, I hear you thinking. Well, that's easy to explain: to be able to use these unattended Windows XP installation CD's on any computer (of course one that's capable of running Windows XP).
So in that thread at MSFN.org I asked how I could do that. Of course people were laughing at me (a quote: "I think you'd be naive to think you'd be able to fit the (latest) drivers of every device made since XP was launched, on the one cd")
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DriverPacks support forum!
The O.E.M. A.C.T.
Original Equipment Manufacturer
Activation Control Technology
This is for those of us computer techs that are sick and tired of installing a clients computer system and having to call microsoft to activate a valid OEM system. What this does is allows you to place manufacturer specific oembios.* files on your disks that are used during setup to replace the default ones that originally come on a windows disk. During installation a program is ran that reads the computers bios to determine what manufacturer it is. Then it determines which oembios.* files are needed when installing the system. It copies the correct files and then the computer will be pre-activated. This should significantly reduce the amount of times you need to call microsoft to activate.
This is not using any hacked files. This is a legal way of creating a universal manufacture disk to install systems which have a valid OEM license from a Royalty OEM like Dell HP Sony Compaq etc...
