Thinkstation S20 - add asset tag in BIOS

[jtadeo]

Is there a utility available to we can update the asset number in BIOS? I found one for the Thinkpad laptops, but not for the thinkstation s20...

for the laptops I used

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-75237

thanks 

[jtadeo]

bump please?

[erik Community SuperMod]

welcome to the forum!

i'm throwing out a wild guess here but have you tried the ISO version of the BIOS updater?   http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-72180

[jtadeo]

i updated my bios the the latest and greatest version but the asset tag field is not selectable... i just don't understand why lenovo released a tool for the thinkpad products just not thinkstation.

[jtadeo]

my co-worker found a setting in the winphlash utility that allows us to specify the asset tag

we used the following settings

after flashing the BIOS it still didn't show up... any ideas?

[psuturtle Lenovo Staff]

Had to check with our BIOS engineer on this one as this was outside of my realm a bit.

Apparently, if you check the readme.1st file, it will specify the switches necessary to update the asset ID field when flashing BIOS.

So what I would do is use the USB key method of updating BIOS, and when running the flash2 command, run this:

flash2.exe /T:nnnnnnn

where nnnnnnn is the asset tag number to update.

Give this a try and see if it works.  I think there are other ways of doing this with other tools, but this flash parameter is probably the simplest.

[jtadeo · Accepted solution]

My co-worker figured this out...

we were able to use the winplash utility to update the asset tag

he had to put the asset tag in the "serial number" field and change the update mode to "update the bios and preserve DMI"

he also mentioned that the flash2.exe method that psuturtle should work too