Waterspill and serial number of pieces !!!
Hi,
A week ago, I posted a thread about a very small
waterspill on the lower right hand corner of the key-
board of an early 2011, 13" Macbook Pro. It was
my mother's computer. We had found a local repair-
man to work on it.
My mother insisted on taking herself the computer
to repair. We had talked to the repairman over the
phone and we had asked him if he could open the
computer before our eyes and tell us a diagnose. Be-
cause of work, at the end I couldn't go with my mother
to the repairman. She went alone. Instead of
waiting for the repairman to disarm a bit the computer
to tell her his diagnose about the computer, she
accepted when he said that she should leave the
computer and comeback later.
A day later the diagnose was that the computer was
'fried'. The problem was not the keyboard, or any
other smaller part, but the logic board. A new logic
board is around $XXX** plus service. So, i may have to
order a new logic board or a new computer for my mother.
To make things a bit worse a friend started to cast doubts on the
repairman's integrity. He said that for an independent
repairman it could have been very easy to swap my logic
board with one that was really deffective. He could then
make a profit by selling that logic board to other customers.
I told him that couldn't be possible because it was likely
that apple had a serial number for the important internal
parts, just like the AC charger has a serial number and the
computer as a whole has a serial number. This is also true
for some products like motorcycles, and drilling machines,
the motor inside, that is the most important piece, has a
serial number. Thus, we thought the MBP's logic board
may have a serial number. Does a logic board has its own
serial number?
Thank you, kind regards,
igmolinav : ) !!!
**Depending on where you may be in the world, a logic
board may be as expensive as $600 USD plus service.
Hi,
A week ago, I posted a thread about a very small
waterspill on the lower right hand corner of the key-
board of an early 2011, 13" Macbook Pro. It was
my mother's computer. We had found a local repair-
man to work on it.
My mother insisted on taking herself the computer
to repair. We had talked to the repairman over the
phone and we had asked him if he could open the
computer before our eyes and tell us a diagnose. Be-
cause of work, at the end I couldn't go with my mother
to the repairman. She went alone. Instead of
waiting for the repairman to disarm a bit the computer
to tell her his diagnose about the computer, she
accepted when he said that she should leave the
computer and comeback later.
A day later the diagnose was that the computer was
'fried'. The problem was not the keyboard, or any
other smaller part, but the logic board. A new logic
board is around $XXX** plus service. So, i may have to
order a new logic board or a new computer for my mother.
To make things a bit worse a friend started to cast doubts on the
repairman's integrity. He said that for an independent
repairman it could have been very easy to swap my logic
board with one that was really deffective. He could then
make a profit by selling that logic board to other customers.
I told him that couldn't be possible because it was likely
that apple had a serial number for the important internal
parts, just like the AC charger has a serial number and the
computer as a whole has a serial number. This is also true
for some products like motorcycles, and drilling machines,
the motor inside, that is the most important piece, has a
serial number. Thus, we thought the MBP's logic board
may have a serial number. Does a logic board has its own
serial number?
Thank you, kind regards,
igmolinav : ) !!!
**Depending on where you may be in the world, a logic
board may be as expensive as $600 USD plus service.