With a slightly higher CPU load (during the game), there are repeated restarts, pink stripes appear on the black screen. I cannot interpret the reports (they are identical, see example below). The problem does not occur with the same load on Macbook Air 2015 (Football Manager 2020 game running via Epic Launcher and Chrome). Big Sur 11.1.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.1
Hi all, lowering memory usage (from around 7GB closer to 6GB, of 8GB total) by closing safari tabs and some (e.g memory) resource hogging app's , e.g Spotify, resolves this issue for me. Apple needs a more elegant way of doing this, e.g low memory warning, unless this is actually a bug in macOS or M1 hardware.
BTW, I can now use an extra monitor memory again without KP's. Although not using an external monitor requires less Vram used (from main Ram) which may resolve the issue instead (but didn't for me, without closing app's).
same problem happened for the second time in the same day after resetting smc unfortunately... this MacBook is a real pain. The problem is dock related according to the apple support. I said the problem also occurred without external devices connected and they asked me for the error reports at these moments, since I had no more logs after the complete reinstall of the OS, it was not possible for me to give them more specifics (however normally crash are reported to apple, so it was a bit surprising request from apple)... what a waste of time.
Another day, another kernel panic with a pink flash before spontaneous reboot.
I did get through to Apple and they put me through to one of the senior technicians. He tried to blame it on peripherals or 3rd party software, of course. Which is pretty rich, as the computer is sold alongside a photo of a Thunderbolt adaptor made by Apple. A bit like a car company saying their product works fine, so long as you don't mess things up by using it to carry passengers.
I was also told this problem was entirely new and unheard of - which is odd as it's being widely discussed online. Many users are reporting similar issues - kernel panics, often with the pink flash. And the machine I'm using is actually Apple's replacement for another M1 that had exactly the same issues.
...today's trigger, by the way, was watching a video. Yesterday's - on a £2000 machine - was writing an email.
Yes, thanks - that's a very good summary.
In my case, the first machine crashed whether it was plugged into peripherals or not. I have screengrabs for when it crashed and rebooted while it was just on my laptop.
I think there's no consensus as it's some kind of intermittent fault. If it was about external monitors - which it evidently isn't exclusively - then I'd expect the machine to crash as soon as the monitor was used. But I've had the machine working for hours, with no problem, then crash spontaneously despite nothing new being plugged in (or out). I'm wondering: could this be a GPU issue?
One weird thing: the second machine ran pretty well for a fortnight, before succumbing to the same problem as the first. The only different in that first fortnight is that I was in a workshop space and was plugging my mac into the mains only rarely. So that suggests some interplay with power management too. But all of this is grasping at straws! Sometimes when there's an intermittent hardware fault, it's easy to try and attribute it to the last thing that happened. And I've realised that's got me nowhere so far.
I do, honestly, think it's disgraceful that every time I speak to an apple engineer, I'm told this is a one-off, they've never heard of this issue before. This is now starting to stretch credulity. A simple admission there's a huge problem, they don't know what it is, it's not down to third-party issues and they need to fix it - that would go a long way to help.
Not that I've seen. All, I ever get from Senior Advisors at Apple is their engineers are aware of the issue and are working on it. They've been telling me that since March. I installed the 11.5.1 update and it's crashed twice since then, so apparently it was nothing more than a security update.
This has been happening to my 2020 Mac book pro with the m1 chip I got it in December. The problem first started happening around early may. Its august now still no improvements. I have tried reinstalling OS and going in to apple. Nothing seems to help improve the issue. The crashes happen infrequent so I feel like its hard to find out what is causing the issue. It will happen when I am just watching a YouTube video to editing a file in photoshop. It seem as if there is no real trigger. Maybe it has something to do with 3rd party products not Running well on the M1 chip. Also, it happens when everything is up to date too.
My recommendation - ignore some of the chatter here around changing hardware - start with a simple software update to the latest official Mac OS release (11.15.2 at this time). And try again.
This from someone with 2 Mac mini M1s, and 2 MacBook Air M1s. All of which failed under 11.15.1, none have failed in the week since updating to 11.15.2.
I have had the same problem - Mac Pro M1.
Suddenly the Mac restarts.
Honestly, a very disappointing problem, since it can restarts without saving the things I'm working on.
Next time this happens I'll post the logs here.
Hello guys,
I had the same issue on my Air M1 and since it was still in its 1year warranty I sent it to an Apple service. Apparently they replaced the entire motherboard so this is an hardware issue. This solved the problem and haven't got that error anymore. You should get yours checked as long as is still in its warranty.
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log attached
I'm having this same issue without any games. Just Google Chrome and it crashes.
I have the same issue with an LG 38WK95C using the USB-C cable. Now switched to HDMI. The support seemed completely unaware of the issue.
Updated to 11.5.
A few hours later, another freeze, pink flash then kernel panic.
It occurs to me at least twice per week. I think the allegedly best chip ever made is not even 100% functional.
Macbook Air M1 - kernel panic
