Does anybody know how to set the new Machine Type and Serial Number after a motherboard replacement for an H535?<\/p>\n
The motherboard recently failed on my H535 (outside of the Lenovo warranty but still under my credit card’s extended warranty). After a great deal of frustration and time, I was finally able to obtain a replacement motherboard from Lenovo.<\/p>\n
I have now installed the motherboard, and it is working. However, upon every boot-up I am getting a POST error with two beeps that reads as follows:
\nError 00CE: Machine Type and Serial Number are INVALID
\nManufacturing Boot Sequence will be taken if no selection is made<\/p>\n
I presume the BIOS on the new motherboard needs to be programmed with the correct Machine Type and Serial Number from my computer.<\/p>\n
I have read various things on the Internet about what to do, such as:
\n– Update the BIOS with a CD-bootable version of the flash utility (I can’t find any BIOS entry under the Lenovo support downloads section for the H535, let alone a CD-bootable version)
\n– Use WinPhlash to modify the DMI entries of the BIOS (I apparently need some sort of BIOS ROM file to make this work, though, which I do not have)
\n– Use a Lenovo utility (such as “Hardware Maintenance Disk”) for my model (Apparently, these are only available to Authorized Providers, and nobody in my area does this)
\n– Clear CMOS by disconnecting power and CMOS battery or using some sort of jumper on the board (That seems unlikely to work, so I am avoiding doing that)<\/p>\n
Can anybody help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":239},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}