Sold MacBookPro - Buyer now having issues rebooting and overheating?
Hi there,
I recently sold a 17" Macbook Pro Late 2011 to a buyer overseas. After finally reaching them they've now requested a full refund due to it being defective. However, before selling I did a full Apple Hardware Test and everything was apparently fine. I also ran Geek Bench which also seemed fine. I had erased and reinstalled the OS to the latest version (High Sierra I believe) and was performing ok.
This is the problem they are having:
1. Initially did not boot, then began to get stuck in a loop booting up
2. After reloading the operating system from a USB flash drive it started but heated up to the point of being too hot to touch
3. Carried out tests to see the behavior and fans went to max and then booted off
I will note that the RAM was not the original RAM, but 16GB purchased from Crucial. Everything else was the original parts.
Can anyone recommend some advice? Anything the buyer can do to verify where this problem is coming from? Would it be repairable (I could pay for repair instead of refund)? Could something have happened in transit?
I appreciate this will likely be difficult to diagnose with limited information available but would love any advice to try and fix it before I refund them.
I really want to help the buyer and would hate to appear like a dishonest seller, as I genuinely believed the laptop was perfectly ok before selling.
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