Mac Pro 5.0 crashing every 10 minutes

Hi,

My macpro 2010 16gb running 10.15.3, with a radeon rx500 8gb crashes all the time. Have tried with different hard drives, have changed ram, although pretty sure this is problem. Have zapped PRAM and SMC, ran fsck on boot, tried 10.14 and 10.13, still had issues.


Any ideas ?


Many thanks.

Bourne


Here is the crash report.



Mac Pro, macOS 10.15

Posted on Apr 6, 2020 2:05 PM

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Posted on Apr 6, 2020 2:41 PM

You suspicion that this is a RAM memory problem cannot be correct, Mac Pro with Xeon processor feature Error correcting RAM memory. Single-bit errors are corrected by Hardware on-the-fly in one stretched memory cycle. Double-bit errors cause a distinctive kernel panic, machine check, with multiple processor reporting the error.


That panic is for a Page fault, a reference to memory outside the memory map. With error-correcting RAM, that is not a RAM issue. It occurred in mdsync, likely related to spotlight indexing. It may be worthwhile to create a new Spotlight index.


How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support


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Apr 6, 2020 2:41 PM in response to bbdew

You suspicion that this is a RAM memory problem cannot be correct, Mac Pro with Xeon processor feature Error correcting RAM memory. Single-bit errors are corrected by Hardware on-the-fly in one stretched memory cycle. Double-bit errors cause a distinctive kernel panic, machine check, with multiple processor reporting the error.


That panic is for a Page fault, a reference to memory outside the memory map. With error-correcting RAM, that is not a RAM issue. It occurred in mdsync, likely related to spotlight indexing. It may be worthwhile to create a new Spotlight index.


How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support


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