[X-Unix] Putting Serial # into System Profiler

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 11/26/04 3:19 AM, "Phillip Burk" <philburk at mac.com> wrote:

>>> Neither identify the exact process of accessing said serial number,
>>> however.  There HAS to be a method of access.  The data is being read
>>> from somewhere.  If we can read from it chances are it's writable.
>> 
>> Why? There are things written in firmware that you cannot write to.
> 
> Because I have a very close friend who is a developer with Apple that
> has a G5 tower with no serial number returned.  His machine is refurbed
> so I expect that either the EEPROM has been flashed empty or the number
> wasn't flashed in.

Ok, so why should _you_ be able to write to it?
 
 
Kirk
 
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