I would guess this vendor replaced the BIOS chip and forgot to do this part, or they used a 'wrong' BIOS chip. Though I do realize of course all other manufacturers have a similar procedure, I have never had this issue. I know one of the biggest problems with replacing Apple MBs is that you have to burn a serial in or they sometimes wont work, or at least work properly. Neither is good advice for procuring them. The problem is, of course, those utilities are not readily available. ROM BIOS flash it creates a 'basic' DOS menu like the BIOS and from there you input about six dif numbers and the factory OS. SO, again after exhaustive reading on HP site and on other forums, I have concluded I need a DMI requires creating a bootable flash drive (or I suppose disc) and loading a HP file/utility, similar to a. When I contacted the vendor I got the MB from they just copied and pasted some instructions that were slightly over my head. After exhaustive reading I learned that the MB did not have its numbers imputed so if I wanted to get past that error message, either I would have to forever hit 'enter' at every start up or do the numbers myself. You can press enter from there and it goes in to the OS just fine. I ordered a repalcement HP MB and after I got it installed I get a power-on error, it says s/n product number etc invalid. How-To Geek Forums / Tutorials (Solved) - burn in MB s/n using DMI tool/utility (21 posts)
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