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Mac Pro Serial Number Not Detected

For Some Reason My Mac Pro Early 2008 doesn't have a serial number in its system info. This is a image of the system information.

As You Can see the serial number isn't available. By the way this Mac Pro was bought on Ebay so I am not 100% sure that the previous owner didn't tamper

with the inside components such as the logic board. I have tried to get the serial number back but it never works so I need to see if anyone else has this issue or is able to fix it. The issue also isn't with Yosemite because on Mavericks it didn't show either. Me myself didn't preform any upgrades to it either accept the fact that I put a 80gb external hard disk into the mac pro. The NVIDIA graphics card and the 6 gb of ram came with the computer. As I have heard about similar issues to this I

believe this issue happens when the logic board is upgraded or something like that. I hope that someone can get to me soon and maybe help me figure this out.

If the logic board is replaced, the technician is supposed to install a new or modified serial number. If they have failed to do that step, you have none.

Is there a way to install a serial number into the logic board?

Not for "mere mortals".  Only Apple can do it.

Is there a serial number on the chassis somewhere that would allow them to look up what the old serial number would have been?

The serial number is on the mac pro by the graphics card. Therefore apple could see the old serial number and re-serialize it.

I have heard of special software that is used to restore serial numbers by apple but I'm not sure it can be legally obtained.

As long as there are no reports of this unit being stolen, and you can show that you bought it, and they can research the old numbers, they should be able to give you a serial number. The genius Bar may be able to do it.

I doubt if the software to do it is available anywhere, and if it is, it's stolen property of Apple.

Unable to Set serial number

最後更新：2017-09-21 15:08:54

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