Accidentally Erased my Mac Mini Firmware Lock Activated, Apple Does not Consider this popular Auction Website Transactions as Valid?
If Firmware password accidentally was set to on, could this be the result of a faulty circuit coming from the electricity? More specifically, the CMOS battery needing to be replaced?
Apple store wanted me to get the original proof of purchase, even though its a total privacy breach for me to do so, against the person on someBay.com (the seller) who sold me the Mac mini. Against the wishes of the seller, I was able to do a store visit at a location thousands of miles away, and they complied with my request to look up serial number of the device because Apple requires the original purchase receipt.
To my dismay, my first attempt with Apple genus said that since the name of the purchaser does not match mine, they would still not assist me with this firmware lock.
Some proof that I did have possession of the computer in question. Serial number may be provided upon request.
This is a screenshot of my experience using FindMy. As you can see, there are some defects noticeable within the image at the time the photo was taken.
Original photo.
There are solutions on some website I found that are for EFI firmware removal.
I have spent over 40 hours troubleshooting this, and have now travelled to 2 Apple technicians, and both of them were not able to resolve this issue.
What Do?