Dell Precision T3400 Dell 2.1 SLIC

[jmsandrsn]

jmsandrsn , thanks for the reply. The short story is that I had it figured out on my own, somehow the SLIC marker was not enabled in that particular T3400 mobo that I purchase. Like I said it came with the A08 BIOS and SLIC toolkit showed no presence of ANY slic marker. It could have been a "N" series but I have no way of knowing. All I know is that after installing a valid windows 7 dell OEM license it still showed no presence of a slic marker. But running some commands and putting the motherboard into factory mode and re-insterting the same service tag, then the slic appeared. So I am not sure what's going on but saying that post A09 BIOS Dell includes the 2.1 slic is not my experience. Actually, the fact that it was not showing a SLIC 2.1 after I installed a fully legitimate win7 OS on the A14 BIOS is proof that something else is going on that more knowledgeable people than me could/should document. Still thank you for responding and sending me a direct email, it came after the fact but it confirmed the procedure I used to solve the problem. Thanks again!

If you had to run some commands including "asset PASS:12/31" then it was definitely an "N" series system you have.  The N series are missing the marker because Dell sold them without a Microsoft OS.