Help with locating my Mac with find my iPhone

My Mac was stolen and I uploaded find my iPhone to my phone. It has not located my computer yet and I am concerned that since I had to reset my password for icloud which obviously was not reset on my stolen computer, that find my Mac will not be able to locate it due to the resetting. Is this correct? Please help

I called Apple support. The good thing is they took my call and didn't charge me an applecare Pay-per-incident phone support.
Their suggestion is to reinstall Mountain Lion, original version.
I do that by:
Restart the mac with option key pressed down to get to "Start up manager"
In "Start up Manager" I am to Choose recovery HD
Under Recovery HD I am to choose the option to reinstall OS to install 10.8
He said it will take a good hour to reinstall, so I'll try tonight.
His guess is that when I originally downloaded Mountain Lion that a kernal was missing -- one that drives the mini port. If that's the case, Reinstalling the OS will fix the problem.
If that doesn't work, he is sending me to a mac store where they can boot my mac with an external drive -- and then they can check the hardware - the mini-port - to see if the problem is my mini-port or Mountain Lion.
Fingers Crossed

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