Yezok. If you are willing to share I would greatly appreciate it. I downloaded a bios update from my mother board site and it not only messed up the bios but changed the tattoo information on my mother board. I ordered a new bios chip from biosman.com and had them to put the HP bios file on it. PC boots fine now. I still have to get the mother board tattooed. I've been unable to get ASUS or HP to help in this matter. My email address is ggrissett@atmc.net
Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I had to do a crisis disk bios restore on my HP nx9110 and it trashed the DMI/tattoo data. As it has a phoenix bios so none of the other tools available work (eg. dmicfg). Please can someone send me or point me in the direction of a copy of the HP DMI tool.

Yezok or anyone if you are able to help I would really appreciate it

Many Thanks

i've facing problem as my laptop unable to perform restart. whenever this activity perform, it's end up with black screen. pls assist

Please do not multiple post in the future. Thanks.

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Hello I have tried to attach the bios tattoo utility and instructions but the server will not accept the file size.
Your file of 17.55 MB bytes exceeds the forum's limit of 293.0 KB for this file type.
An Administrator will have to go into the Admin control panel and change the max size for rar files so I can upload for all to use.

Try using mediafire file hosting. It is free! And share the link.

http://www.mediafire.com/

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Hi,
Does anybody email me HP tatoo utility with password? Pls
my mail id is m.naeem@live.in

If the file and password is being given out, I would not mind to have that it in case I need it in the future. Thanks

I have purchased an HP Pavilion m9040n desktop not long ago, but am out of warranty.

During a thunderstorm, while I was powering down, the PC got hit.

When I was able to check for the damage the PC did not powered up and the light on the PSU was blinking.

I ended up replacing the motherboard and the CPU; now I am faced with the problem of re-tattooing the motherboard in order to restore my VISTA 32 bit OS.

Regardless if I try to power up from the hard drive or the recovery discs, the system goes thru a repair attempt and then fails to open Vista. I have talked to HP tech support and they told me that since I did not buy the motherboard through them that I need to tattoo this new motherboard.

This should not have been an awful ordeal since I have all the necessary information to upgrade the DMI tables; or at least should be easy to get help from either HP or their Authorized Dealers.

I found out the hard way that HP seems to be interested only on selling me hardware or new software; where the excuses of those Authorized dealers I have talked to are shameful to repeat. In addition the exorbitant price they ask for this apparently easy task for those who have the right software, it begs to consider buying a new computer instead.

After trying all the possible logical avenues I am hoping that some kind soul there is willing to share its experience and software to help me out.

I hope that someone can give me some help in re-tattooing my motherboard.

Thanks in advance.

I am very sorry, but you must buy a retail copy of VISTA 32 bit OS and reinstall, or buy the proper motherboard from HP.
What you are attempting to do is circumvent your OEM software Licensing Agreement. THIS IS CALLED PIRACY!!!
Read your the EULA (END-USER-LICENSING-AGREEMENT)
Your OEM copy of 32 bit Vista is licensed to run on the original motherboard that came with your HP Pavilion m9040n desktop.

HP is the only one that can Tattoo your NON HP board.

For people looking for the HP tattoo utility, I found a link to the most recent version of the utility, with instructions at Rapidshare. Get it while the gettin's hot. Ten downloads and then the link dies, so anyone else who gets it, please re-upload somewhere else.
http://rapidshare.com/files/292163923/HPTattoo.zip.html

Did you get it?

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Why is this size so different from the one that is being popped up on rapidshare? At ZIP it is about 5+MB.

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I think you could buy them through HP for $10-$15 if you don't have the originals. I would go that way because you get the dv2400 series driver and apps dvd with it also.

If this is correct, it is worth the investment and not getting the chance downloading some malware that would render the notebook unusable.

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