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X200s - a rare board find?

X200/X201/X220 (including equivalent tablet models) and X300/X301 Series
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X200s - a rare board find?

#1 Post by wujstefan » Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:42 am

I must have some luck finding weird things.

I have been handed a X200s lately as a part of a trade. The system looks pretty normal, L9400, everything seem pretty casual BUT... after entering the bios I have noticed the UUID is all in zeros (so 000000-0000 and so on). Nothing that special, I have seen that on service boards.

System-unit serial number, however.... MFG_IN_GOING. Some kind of engineering sample?
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Re: X200s - a rare board find?

#2 Post by Thinkpad4by3 » Fri Aug 09, 2019 11:52 am

Can we see a BIOS screenshot?
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Re: X200s - a rare board find?

#3 Post by wujstefan » Mon Aug 19, 2019 11:34 am

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Re: X200s - a rare board find?

#4 Post by ilakast » Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:25 pm

It's probably not at all rare as the zeros indicate that someone swapped the motherboard

viewtopic.php?p=746812#p746812

and never used the special software to set the serial number
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Re: X200s - a rare board find?

#5 Post by RealBlackStuff » Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:33 pm

Bit late, aren't you?
Like over oneandahalf years?
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