On Tue, 2023-01-10 at 10:45 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > See: > https://www.dell.com/support/contents/en-ca/article/product-support/self-support-knowledgebase/locate-service-tag/desktops I have to wonder how many motherboards have the same serial number? I've seen a few systems with the same ABCD1234 kind of serial number that was obviously just a placeholder. And dmidecode returns a lot of these answers on my systems: Manufacturer: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Product Name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Serial Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M. Or, "Not Specified" > Lack of a Service Tag and CPU mismatch suggest a checkered history -- > worst case would be a stolen system with easily identifiable data > removed. Though could just as easily be two or more broken systems cannibalised to create one that worked. Many years ago I was given a collection of ex-office PCs that had died in various ways from a power surge (a PSU here, a motherboard there, a daughterboard, etc). But I was able to put together two or three from all of the rest that worked very well for me for a long time. Eventually they became very outdated (about 10 years out of date), and too slow for modern use. I stripped them down for recycling. About the only things I kept were a few cables, various RAM sticks, and all the screws. I don't think any new PCs would use the same kind of RAM, but they might go into a printer. A spare PSU is always useful for testing, but a new trustworthy one is better for actually fitting into a PC, and cheap enough. The screws were actually the most useful parts to keep. A friend dropped by as I was ratting them and just about had a fit over me destroying them. But, to be honest, if you gave anybody one of them, it would have been more of a punishment than a gift. -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 6.0.10-200.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Nov 26 16:53:11 UTC 2022 x86_64 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
