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Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting.

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc, comp.sys.mac.portables, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting.
Date	2016-02-13 02:54 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<di7k80Fe4p9U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2016-02-13, 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?
>
> I copied and pasted from Mac OS X v10.10.5 (Yosemite)'s "About This Mac 
> like I said earlier. ;) 

Thanks; though technically you said you "entered" it; so I wasn't sure
if you had typed it. Just checking to be sure. ; )

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

Shouldn't be too hard. Did you get it on eBay from a stranger, or from a
friend?

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15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-02-11 16:34 -0600
  Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-02-12 06:11 +0000
    Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-02-12 11:37 -0600
      Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-02-12 17:54 +0000
        Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-02-12 14:28 -0600
          Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-02-12 22:36 +0000
            Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-02-12 20:24 -0600
              Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-02-13 02:54 +0000
                Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-02-13 12:27 -0600

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