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"HP is really good at giving us the support for tattooing their motherboards when dealing with their warranty service" added Arthur Leite of Aware Bear Computers. "Not only they give us full support, but excellent training as well, it's one of the benefits of being HP certified." Aware Bear Computers added that the reason for this distinctive code on the bios is to ensure that all the diagnostics and System Restore disks will work with the specific models of computers that are sold.

"What people don't realize, is that even though the PC or a laptop may be the same model, it can contain different factory parts in it depending on when the specific model was assembled." Andre Leite Alves stated. "If that is the case, than the recovery CDs and the diagnostic tools will not work properly since the drivers might be different". Aware Bear Computer technician Mike James also added that the tattoo process insures that the recovery and diagnostics CD cannot be used illegally used with other computers than the ones that they are intended to use. "At AwareBear, we have to constantly keep up to date and have all the tools possible for all the repair work needed on all computers. "In terms of diagnostic tools, there are universal diagnostics tools out in the market that works wonders." says Andre Alves of AwareBear.

In deep detail Aware Bear Computers explains that a tattoo consists of an erasable read-only memory (EPROM) programmable chip that holds information about the computer such as the operating system, the serial number. Each machine has its own unique code and once a mother board is replaced, this chip must be reprogrammed. "Have you heard of people who buy new motherboards for PCs such as Sony Vaios, everything works fine but then they cannot use their software?" says Arthur Leite of Aware Bear Computers "The reason being is that the motherboard was not tattooed and there is a conflict going on with the new motherboard and the operating system.

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