Macbook Pro 2019 keeps crashing after formatting Time Machine drive with APFS
I upgraded my Macbook Pro 2019 i5 to Big Sur a few weeks ago (and now running 11.1) and it has been running fine apart from Time Machine backups on my external hard drive. When running Catalina I had my Time Machine drive formated with mac OS Extended. This morning I reformatted the external drive and chose APFS, and my Mac has crashed a few times already. Hardware is working but it's a "black screen" crash. The screen turns black and then a white text comes on the screen prompting me to press a key or wait. The machine then starts and everything looks fine Since I haven't had that problem before I suspect it's the combination of Time Machine and the AFPS formatted drive (WD My Passport SSD), which might cause the error. I've disconnected the drive to see if the computer is stable, and it seems it is as long as the external drive isn't connected and Time Machine starts to make a backup. No crash report is generated, and I've tried to search the net to no avail. Would be very interesting to see if someone has any ideas.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14