My t500 lost its Serial Number when the board was replaced

     The main board of my T500 failed 2 months ago while under warranty.  It went in to IBM for repair and was declined warranty coverage because of alleged liquid damage............I was very surprised by this diagnosis and asked for the evidence which was not provided....The caller from IBM said he was not the technician who did the inspection, so he could not discuss the findings. He was clear though that there would be no coverage.  I was however offered a repair for about $900, but since the parts were not available at that time, the return could be 6 weeks or more.  I was angry at this point and declined the repair.   I found a remanufactured board from Malaysia and installed it myself..Total cost was $350 and 2 hours of my time.  I still am trying to accept the rejection of warranty coverage....I looked very closely and found no evidence that the computer was inspected internally.  When I replaced the board, there was definitely no liquid damage.....I cannot believe that IBM would do this to a customer who has purchased 5 IBMs over 10 years.   The technicians likely saw the pealing paper under my T500 that I caused by using screen wipes to clean off the dust.  This they must have extrapolated to make their diagnosis....I expected more.  Since then, my T500 has fallen out of warranty....3 weeks now....The problem is, the new main board replacement caused the Serial Number to be lost from the registry (hardware) and replaced with a TP-6F......if I set it to the proper model number in the registry, It will participate in a software update once, then the registry resets to the TP-6F at reboot. I called IBM support and was told there was nothing that could be done as my warranty had run out.  Any help would be appreciated as to a way to permanently reload the model and serial number in the bios as It cannot edited manually.

Hi and welcome to the forum!
To feed Type/Model/Serial number etc. info. in the BIOS, a maintenance diskette is required, the access to which is only available to lenovo techs, business partners, and authorized service providers. Please see the KB on this:- http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkVantage-Technolog​ies/System-Update-doesn-t-work-after-System-Board-​...
Since you replaced the system board yourself, therefore I'm not certain if lenovo or it's service providers would help you on this...
Hope it answers your question.
Maliha (I don't work for lenovo)
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