600E Certificate of Authenticity

[Oldtime]

I'm rebuilding my 600E from the Product Recovery disk (WinNT).  This rebuild needs a Certificate of Authenticity (COA).  The COA came as a separate insert with the computer, not as a stick-on on the underneath.  The COA insert was lost some time ago.  I think the COA needs to come from IBM (back in the Feb 99 days) rather than Microsoft, as it is an OEM COA. There are no user-created recovery disks, since those were tossed when the machine was upgraded to XP (this was a corporate upgrade, and had to be removed when corporate life was no longer relevant).

Does anyone know how to dig up this COA?

Thanks.       Bill

[lead_org Microsoft MVP Contributor]

Lenovo or IBM can't help you with these COA, you have to figure that out from your end. 

[Oldtime]

The machine was purchased via the IBM EPP back in the spring of '99.  I was hoping that somewhere there might be some sort of record.....  Or maybe some basis for appeal, if I could figure out whom to appeal to..

Thnx            Bill

[lead_org Microsoft MVP Contributor]

IBM or Lenovo doesn't keep a record of your COA. 

What is the point of appealing, if they don't keep your COA and any installation discs would have been chucked in the recycle bin years ago. 

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