Lenovo T490 - motherboard serial - windows licence lost - after corrupt bios chip replacement

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  • baletak
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    • Apr 2023
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    • Czechia

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    Lenovo T490 - motherboard serial - windows licence lost - after corrupt bios chip replacement

    Hi,
    had T490 with faulty bios chip. Bought chip out of ebay and soldered on. Laptop starts and works however serial numbers of laptop and motherboard do not match.
    I have updated laptop model number.

    1) I did not find the way to update laptop serial number - I have this one.
    2) I dont know where to get my motherboard serial number and how to update it. Is it somewhere physically on the mainboard? How do I update it?

    Hope to find someone to help me with this as I am hitting dead end at the moment.

    Many thanks

    Miro
  • baletak
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    • Apr 2023
    • 4
    • Czechia

    #2
    UPDATE> I was able to find laptop serial number as well as motherboard serial number (there is a sticker on motherboard with long number and 3QR codes) through lenovo utility disk 2.02

    I however still dont have my WINDOWS licence back ... any ideas?

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    • SMDFlea
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      • Jan 2018
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      • UK

      #3
      Originally posted by baletak
      UPDATE> I was able to find laptop serial number as well as motherboard serial number (there is a sticker on motherboard with long number and 3QR codes) through lenovo utility disk 2.02

      I however still dont have my WINDOWS licence back ... any ideas?
      Post your bios backup here after you`ve updated your DMI info.
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      • baletak
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        • Apr 2023
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        • Czechia

        #4
        UPDATE2> I have managed to extract windows licence key from old bios chip. Is there a way to insert licence key back to BIOS?

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