I've tried running various Lenovo tools to do this. For example the hardware maintenance diskette. There is also a EFI program that runs directly from a USB EFI partition called the Lenovo Thinkpad Maintenance Utility. I've got this program to load and run but when I put in the values for the S/N in the format:
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1SMMMMTTTTCCSSSSSSSS
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TpReadEEPROMBlock write access to block#84 is denied status=0xf, rc0*