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I bought a refurbished Thinkpad T410 which has the incorrect Product, Verion and Serial number entered in the DMI data.
I installed a new OEM disk of Windows 7 Pro. While installing the Thinkpad drivers I realised that the machine was being detected as a Thinkpad T400 not T410 and discovered that the DMI data is reporting a Product, Version and Serial Number that do not match those on the sticker on the machine and which correspond to a different model.
This leaves three questions.
If I leave it as it is, am I right in assuming that this will not cause any problems as long as I manually verify and correct the results of any tools that identify my hardware (eg the Crucial system scanner).
If I do correct the DMI data, am I going to create problems with Windows being authenticated against a motherboard with a BIOS originally reporting different data?
Third, what is a reliable tool that works with Windows 7 64 bit to do this? (I'm assuming that the process will probably involve downloading then editing a BIOS image then reflashing the motherboard with the new BIOS but maybe there's an other way.)
user3946
Posted 2012-08-26T15:49:04.373
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Thank you - if you put that as a reply rather than a comment then I'd be able to accept it :) There were no recovery disks supplied but I've contacted Lenovo support and paid an admin fee for a new set - so I guess I'll see whether they work. – user3946 – 2012-08-26T17:31:08.117
Let me know if recovery discs don't work, there may be a way to make them work if they don't, what OS was sold with that laptop? Who refurbished the laptop? – Moab – 2012-08-26T20:17:10.100
Thanks, that's kind of you but I'm sure I can get it to work. Sold without OS or recovery disks and no recovery partition on HDD. I ordered the recovery disks for whoever I pass the laptop onto when I next upgrade. I was just curious about how one might edit the DMI - in all honesty, I suspect the data was entered by mistake and not deliberately. – user3946 – 2012-08-27T11:12:40.483