From: Jonathan Berry (jberry_at_islandnet.com)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 14:21:29 EST
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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