You may be negating any warranty you have with HP, unless your swapping the moherboard out and wanting to match some sticker on the LT case itself. Dell has a utilitiy for this sort of activity, but as long as you give dell the original AssetTag(aka DellTag) you can get warranty work. HP workstations seem to (according to hp.com) have a place for a custom tag and or setting yout own. Asset Tag Repository for storing company-specific property asset numbers for easy tracking Initially set equal to the system serial number Stored in a protected section of non-volatile memory that can be accessed and modified with the F10 Setup program You can use windows wmi to retrieve the tags, open a cmd prompt and type wmic.exe /output:c: bios-info.html BIOS get /format:hform.xsl Then open the bios-info.html on the C: -rich.