Mac won’t boot, repeatedly restarts(kernel panic?)

I think I was just browsing on safari when the mac suddenly froze, unresponsive to anything on keyboard, mouse pointer frozen etc, other than the caps lock green indicator which responded.

I first tried shutting the lid for a while, to no avail. The screen became a lit black. I then did control-command-power button, and it restarted, but into windows(bootcamp). So I again restarted, this time holding down the option key to select mac os. It began booting into mac, but very quickly the apple logo and progress bar disappears and it boots into windows again. I tried again twice, same results.

After this, I tried safe mode and it worked, I was able to boot into mac os in safe mode and login. I attempt to restart normally, and now it does begin booting into mac os but shows the ‘your computer was restarted because of a problem...’ black screen, and seemingly infinitely repeatedly restarts with the same message black screen.

This is where I am now; I cannot start the mac normally, but safe mode is working(as of now). I have also tried running disk utility in safe mode and recovery mode which did not work.

I hope my description was acceptable and can help. Any advice and help would be really appreciated

MacBook Pro 13″, 10.14

Posted on Jul 10, 2020 8:34 AM

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Jul 18, 2020 6:38 AM in response to Ian1402

Ian1402 wrote:

...this mac was school-managed so had a ton of software downloaded, maybe that's why? It's no longer school managed as I graduated, but I haven't wiped the mac and reinstalled like my school recommended.

Going back to your earlier reply and looking at your latest EtreCheck report, I strongly suggest that, instead of tweaking your Mac, that you completely erase it and reinstall a fresh copy of macOS. There are just too many extension, drivers, etc, that you may no longer need or use that are still impacting your Mac's performance.


Ref: How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - Apple Support

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