[Jerban]

The serial number must obviously still be under warranty for any chance of success.

It can be done, but I personally don't like It, namely because they'll request It's return and due to the nature of the Item, methods are limited. You can say that your (young) son/nephew was using It and It caught fire. As such, for the health & safety of your family, you Immediately disposed of It.

Yea, i agree. Thats what i tried with Lenovo but they insisted on No return No replacement.

Which ultimately was a huge waste of time.

I can certainly relate to this.

What method are you planning to use?

For the razer and alienware i have No other option than the persuasion and try my luck IT seems, or somehow make Them go first, i might give IT a Half assed try, or wait till Someone comes Up with something Better i can replicate, at the moment i get good results from doing other less SE'd items for householding or other methods like Partials that i again might just get more Partials and take another approach where i actually pay and do the wrong item and get IT refunded.

As we both agreed om earlier the dream of SE"ing a laptop from purely serial # might just be too much fantasyland in the end.