Lenovo THINKPAD 11e 4th Gen User Manual

2.Gotohttp://www.lenovo.com/maintenanceutilitiesandfollowtheinstructionsonthescreentocreatea
MaintenanceKey.
Note:OnlyanauthorizedLenovoservicetechniciancanaccesstheaboveWebsite.
3.Restartthecomputer.
4.Whenthelogoisdisplayed,pressEsc.TheThinkPadConfigInformationUpdateUtilityinterfaceis
displayed.
5.Type1underEntertheactiondesired,thenpressEnter.TheThinkPadSerialNumberUpdateUtilityfor
AssetIDscreenisdisplayed.
6.Type2underEntertheactiondesired,thenpressEnter.Theserialnumberofeachdeviceinyour
computerisdisplayed;theserialnumberofthesystemunitislistedasfollows:
20-Serialnumber
7.Recordtheserialnumberofthesystemunit.
Afteryoureplacethesystemboard,dothefollowingtorestoretheserialnumberofthesystemunit:
1.ConnecttheMaintenanceKeytothecomputer.
2.Whenthelogoisdisplayed,pressEsc.TheThinkPadConfigInformationUpdateUtilityinterfaceis
displayed.
3.Type1underEntertheactiondesired,thenpressEnter.TheThinkPadSerialNumberUpdateUtilityfor
AssetIDscreenisdisplayed.
4.Type1underEntertheactiondesired,thenpressEnter.Thenfollowtheinstructionsonthescreen
torestoretheserialnumberofthesystemunit.
RetainingtheUUID
TheUniversallyUniqueIdentifier(UUID)isa128-bitnumberuniquelyassignedtoyourcomputerat
productionandstoredintheEEPROMofyoursystemboard.
ThealgorithmthatgeneratesthenumberisdesignedtoprovideuniqueIDsuntiltheyearA.D.3400.Notwo
computersintheworldhavethesamenumber.
Whenyoureplacethesystemboard,performthefollowingstepstocreateanewUUIDforthesystem
boardifthesystemboarddoesnothaveaUUID:
Note:Beforeyouperformtheoperation,ensurethattheUEFI/LegacysettingwithintheStartupmenuin
theThinkPadSetupprogramissettoUEFIOnly.
1.ConnectaUSBmemorykeytothecomputer.
2.Gotohttp://www.lenovo.com/maintenanceutilitiesandfollowtheinstructionsonthescreentocreatea
MaintenanceKey.
Note:OnlyanauthorizedLenovoservicetechniciancanaccesstheaboveWebsite.
3.Restartthecomputer.
4.Whenthelogoscreenisdisplayed,pressEsc.TheThinkPadConfigInformationUpdateUtilityinterface
isdisplayed.
5.Type2underEntertheactiondesired,thenpressEnter.TheAutoUUIDgenerationutilityinterfaceis
displayed.
6.TypeyunderChangeUUID.OK?[Y/N],thenpressEnter.AnewUUIDiscreatedandwritten.Ifa
validUUIDalreadyexists,itisnotoverwritten.
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Lenovo THINKPAD 11e 4th Gen Specifications

General

Brand	Lenovo
Model	THINKPAD 11e 4th Gen
Category	Laptop
Language	English