From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 14:47:37 EST
not only CAN a serial number in coms be changed, i always used to do that
with my personal machines..
i insert my name and sometimes my tel#..
its easy if you know how its done..
which i won't relate here, obviously.. :-)
as fas as ebay sellers go, there are some REAL obvious crooks there..
and no way to warn the stupid buyers to be careful..
if a seller won't give a buyer the entire serial number before payment has
been made, don't make payment..
request a picture of the label on the bottom of the machine..
most have digital cameras now..
no picture, no sale..!
Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Berry" <jberry_at_islandnet.com>
Newsgroups: list.thinkpad
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: Serial numbers
> My 701 does not seem to have the serial number in BIOS. It is
> only under the case. And no date of manufacture there, the
> warranties in those days went from the date of purchase.
>
> So, executive summary: any seller of a TP should be able to
> provide its serial number, unless the machine is a VERY old
> model, or unless he is selling it as a broken machine.
>
> In fact, I have not seen any serial numbers listed on ebay.
> Only a few vendors (of the 600E machines, anyway) give the
> warranty expiry date.
>
>
> In article <200103020714.f227E4J24671_at_nalle.netsonic.fi>,
> Dominique Pivard <domi_at_kenavo.fi> wrote:
> >On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 at 10:57 PM you, Benjamin Koh <benkoh_at_stanford.edu>,
> >said:
> >
> >>By "owner" I take it you mean "thief".
>
> That is what I meant!
>
> >>No legitimate owner would remove a
> >>serial number.
> >
> >Does it really matter if the sticker has been removed? On my TP570, the
> >serial number can be obtained from BIOS (and I don't think you can easily
> >change that one). There's also a separate serial number for the system
> >board and a UUID (more than 30 character long, whatever that is).
> >
> >I believe other ThinkPads have their serial number stored in BIOS, so any
> >seller should be able to tell it, even if the sticker has been removed or
> >worn out beyond recognition.
> >
> >-Dominique
> >
>
> --
> cheers
> Jonathan Berry
> http://www.islandnet.com/~jberry/ to know more than you want
>
>
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