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My MacBook Pro keeps restarting in the middle of me doing work. Sometimes it won’t happen for a day or two, sometimes it’ll happen 3 times in a row. I have seen a lot of similar posts about this and I finally found a solution, er, bandaid. I want to share in case if helps others
I would get the now famous pop up “are you sure you want to shut down your computer” in the middle of typing or working. After restarting the computer would have a popup “your computer was restarted because of a problem”.
I tried every suggestion I found going down an internet rabbit hole and so here is what didn’t work and what finally worked:
Didn’t work :
I noticed as the problem got worse and happened more often, the computer wouldn’t come back on when I hit the power button. But if I closed and reopened the lid, it would sometimes trip it into powering up.
I then closed the lid and plugged it into my Work hub. My work hub is a thinkpad usbC hub that provides the monitor, keyboard mouse and power to the computer. It’s for a windows computer but works with macs as well. It is similar to a dock. As long as the lid stays closed, I was able to use the computer via the hub. I don’t know if the issue is related to the screen controller (the graphics card is still in use in this setup). It seems more likely the lid sensor that knows if the lid is open or closed. I have yet to try using the hub with the lid open.
I would get the now famous pop up “are you sure you want to shut down your computer” in the middle of typing or working. After restarting the computer would have a popup “your computer was restarted because of a problem”.
I tried every suggestion I found going down an internet rabbit hole and so here is what didn’t work and what finally worked:
Didn’t work :
I noticed as the problem got worse and happened more often, the computer wouldn’t come back on when I hit the power button. But if I closed and reopened the lid, it would sometimes trip it into powering up.
I then closed the lid and plugged it into my Work hub. My work hub is a thinkpad usbC hub that provides the monitor, keyboard mouse and power to the computer. It’s for a windows computer but works with macs as well. It is similar to a dock. As long as the lid stays closed, I was able to use the computer via the hub. I don’t know if the issue is related to the screen controller (the graphics card is still in use in this setup). It seems more likely the lid sensor that knows if the lid is open or closed. I have yet to try using the hub with the lid open.
2016 MacBook Pro keeps restarting randomly
