Its not pirated calm down, lol. Its an old PC that the company i work for gave me and an install of windows xp pro volume license edition came with it, only problem was while i was installing it i realized they didnt give me a cd key for it. I asked them about it and they said they have already changed volume license keys and wouldnt give me one of the new ones, so in order to run the system i used a fake volume license key and figured if i can get a real one i can just change it later. I became aware of the validation process problems while trying to get sp2 so now im stuck without it. Off to best buy to get windows xp home for me then eh? Thanks for the input i guess, lol.