I bought it with Apple and it was surely in their records. But if you lost the receipt I understand. And although I’m not so organized with these things, you bet that when I spend $2500 on a MacBook, I’ll have that receipt in the (slim) box it came in. Resetting the firmware with Apple doesn’t cost you a thing! I did it about four years after I got My Mac. I still haven’t seen proof of this being possible on a newer Mac.įor those who claim they want to save “$$$” or that they’re no longer covered by AppleCare… I call BS. The video above shows a motherboard that has so many ports that I highly downy it’s an MBP retina.

Don’t try unless you don’t care about the data and you know EXACTLY what you are doing!įor 2011-present systems, you need a clean EFI with an intact ME region - Apple has a procedure, but they require a proof of purchase.ĪLL of you who posted instructions: sorry, it DOESN’T work on MacBooks made after 2012 (retina and newer). You can try and crack it, but you may damage the firmware on the drive and permanently mess it up. It can be done but the use of encryption in the firmware to hide it makes it high risk and usually impractical. If you have a HDP (Hard Disk Password), the drive is typically discarded because it’s so difficult to recover from that. Once the system is up, go under Utilities and find Password Reset utility. Expect to sit for ~15-20+ minutes or more to err on the side of caution - the DVD drive takes it’s sweet time unlike a flash drive. Both of these will work, so it's a matter of which one works for you. In order to boot from the DVD, put it in the drive and press Option and select the DVD or press C.

While 10.6 has been EOL for years and application/hardware support hasn’t been there for years, it does come in handy - legacy hardware and situations like this are why it still makes sense to keep around.

Apple sells this for $20 but I think they only continue to sell it for Mac OS X upgrades since you need to have 10.6 installed as a bare minimum to upgrade the OS through the App Store. On pre-2011 systems, you can do this with a Snow Leopard DVD or changing the RAM configuration.

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