Change Dell service tag?

burrelly · Oct 24, 2007

I have just replaced the motherboard on my Dell D420 and the service tag in the bios does not match the system now.

I have had a look about and found a few ways suggested to change it but am unable to. Does anyone know a way around this?

Tedster · Oct 24, 2007

you cannot reuse your current OS. You will need to reformat and reinstall windows.

kpo6969 · Oct 25, 2007

burrelly said:
I have just replaced the motherboard on my Dell D420 and the service tag in the bios does not match the system now.

I have had a look about and found a few ways suggested to change it but am unable to. Does anyone know a way around this?

Nice try
BTW
How exactly did you change the mobo on that laptop?
What's your service tag # on record with Dell?
If it's correct you should have no issues.

burrelly · Oct 25, 2007

kpo6969 said:
Nice try
BTW
How exactly did you change the mobo on that laptop?
What's your service tag # on record with Dell?
If it's correct you should have no issues.

It was a second hand motherboard.

I am not going to give my full service tag but it is a UK tag ending in 2J the new board is also a UK tag ending in 2J

I want both the base and the bios to match I know i wont have any issues if i call dell for support as they will check the actual tag and see it is in warrenty but for neatness I would like them to match up.

There must be a way to do it?

Redster the os is nothing to do with it, the tag is stored on the bios.

Casper200519 · Mar 10, 2008

Just uploaded an iso to help everyone out on this post it around rapidshare.com/files/98360686/DellBIOSReset.rar.html

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