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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting.
Date: 12 Feb 2016 22:36:44 GMT
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Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> In comp.sys.mac.system Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> Have you checked to see if it is part of the recall?:
>>> 
>>>> <https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/>
>>> 
>>> Hmm, it asks about the purchase date since I got it from someone (not a 
>>> store). I will have to ask that. Is there another way to check?
> 
>> When I went to that page, I just entered the hardware serial number, and
>> it figured out the rest on its own. Did you try that?
> 
> I clicked on the link in "Use the "Check your Coverage" tool on the 
> Apple Support site to determine if your MacBook Pro model matches the 
> list of affected products below. Sample results: ..." that went from 
> https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do to 
> https://checkcoverage.apple.com/ ... http://i.imgur.com/skSToNs.png for 
> a screen capture after entering the serial number (blurred most of it) 
> from Mac OS X v10.10.5 (Yosemite)'s "About This Mac".

Interesting. Where did you get that serial number exactly? Are you sure you
didn't introduce a typo?

Otherwise, I guess you'll need to find out the purchase date somehow.

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