I left these alone.ĭMI Tables only had a single mention of the serial number and 'To be filled by O.E.M.' under System Information at Text String 4įollowing the same steps as before I removed the 'To be filled by O.E.M.' and entered the 22 digit Sn from the tablet and saved the edited ROM Scrolling down through the BIOS Strings I found a few more 'To be filled by O.E.M.' but they were listed after Asset Tag, Product Name, Manufacturer Name, and UUID. I filled it in with the 22 character serial number from the tablet. So double clicking in the string field containing Under the BIOS Strings tab at Token 0x001C the string contained 'Serial Number', the next Token 0x001D contained 'To be filled by O.E.M.' Looking through the different areas of the utility, I was able to find a couple of areas that looked to be the right ones to edit. Next I tracked down the AMIBCP utility and opened the afuwin.rom I'd created. I downloaded and ran AFUWINGUI, went to the progress tab and hit save to create a copy of the BIOS and saved it as afuwin.rom

So after doing some research, I've found this tablet uses AMI Aptio 5 for its BIOS.

So I've gone down the rabbit hole of checking out how to get the original serial number added back into the BIOS and I would love to have someone who has a bit more experience in this field look my work over for me.

I'd asked this on the Acer community forums and rather than getting an answer one way or the other, I basically got told it was against their forum standards.Ĭurious if anyone else has had to do this with an Acer before? Lenovo has their BIOS update, Dell automatically asks for it.īut so far with Acer I haven't been able to find much info on whether this is something I can do myself or something that only Acer can do because they didn't make those tools available. Now I've encountered this while doing motherboard replacements for Dell and Lenovo acting as their local tech for doing in warranty calls, both of those companies have a way of allowing the end-user to set the SN after the motherboard is first booted. Noticed in the BIOS the serial number says 'To be filled by O.E.M.'. But can't boot to any Windows 10 installation media. I found a new one from a company out of New Hampshire and ordered it, installed it, booted up fine.

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