Mac Pro Serial Number Not Detected

For Some Reason My Mac Pro Early 2008 doesn't have a serial number in its system info. This is a image of the system information.
As You Can see the serial number isn't available. By the way this Mac Pro was bought on Ebay so I am not 100% sure that the previous owner didn't tamper
with the inside components such as the logic board. I have tried to get the serial number back but it never works so I need to see if anyone else has this issue or is able to fix it. The issue also isn't with Yosemite because on Mavericks it didn't show either. Me myself didn't preform any upgrades to it either accept the fact that I put a 80gb external hard disk into the mac pro. The NVIDIA graphics card and the 6 gb of ram came with the computer. As I have heard about similar issues to this I
believe this issue happens when the logic board is upgraded or something like that. I hope that someone can get to me soon and maybe help me figure this out.

As long as there are no reports of this unit being stolen, and you can show that you bought it, and they can research the old numbers, they should be able to give you a serial number. The genius Bar may be able to do it.
I doubt if the software to do it is available anywhere, and if it is, it's stolen property of Apple.

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