Anyone else having to deal with "reported" duplicate SMS BIOS GUID's and/or MAC addresses???

[h4x0r]

As a minor update as it relates to this thread...I had one of our techs replace a motherboard in a Dell workstation today, and he was having no end of troubles trying to image the workstation...same issues as before: no service tag (duh). What I found out though as I was showing him this, was that the motherboard actually allowed us to edit the service tag field from WITHIN the BIOS. Now, I had previously thought that you couldn't edit this field from BIOS, and I was right...however, with this replacement board from Dell, when I actually brought up the Service Tag screen, because it was blank it let us type in the service tag. It should be noted that this is a one-time deal, and that afterward bringing up the service tag window will give a pop-up alert which says that the information listed is for viewing purposes only.

 

tl;dr--a replacement motherboard from Dell will let you add the service tag of the workstation, without having to boot to a Win98 disk and run the ASSET utility