Mac Pro Invalid Serial

[green21135]

Hi,

I recently came across a late 2013 Mac Pro that had been unopened from the factory when they had OSX 10.9 (I assume pretty old then) and the computer works fine. Icloud, imessage, and such all work. However, the serial number on the bottom and inside the software does not bring anything up on apple's check coverage thing. At first I thought it may be stolen, but it would still show something when I look it up.

I called apple support and they told me to take it to an apple store to get it looked at.

Any ideas on what could cause this/ or should I bother taking it in?

Thanks in advance.

 

[h9826790]

Serial number is everything in warranty / repair programme. Without a proper serial number, Apple may not provide any maintenance to your machine (no matter you pay it or not). If I were you, I will fix it unless the cost to take the machine to Apple is super high.

 

[green21135]

Serial number is everything in warranty / repair programme. Without a proper serial number, Apple may not provide any maintenance to your machine (no matter you pay it or not). If I were you, I will fix it unless the cost to take the machine to Apple is super high.

The computer works fine, but I was just seeing about the computer potentially being added to their database

 

[itdk92]

You could, in theory, fix it yourself with Apple serializing software..

 

[green21135]

You could, in theory, fix it yourself with Apple serializing software..

Could you explain how I would do that and how it works?

 

[itdk92]

Could you explain how I would do that and how it works?

I am sorry, I cannot help you more than this.

The answer is on the web, you just need to go full on with Google search.

You could for example try to find posts about Macs with missing SN.. for example..