MacBook 12” Retina freezes and restarts. Any help appreciated!!

Hi all,

I have a MacBook 12” Retina. All of a sudden over the past few weeks it has started to completely freeze, most of the time the screen freezes but still shows whatever I was working, trackpad doesn't respond, after a few seconds it goes to the black screen that says that there was a problem and restarts. A couple months ago it will run for hours without freezing but now it freezes instantly at login or a few minutes later.


I have tried some of the typical solutions, running disk diagnostics, mac diagnostics, resetting RAM, antivirus scanning, even format and reinstall, but still does the same.


I have booting in safe mode (it also freezes on safe mode), and allowed me to run EtreCheck, newly formatted with Big Sur and shows 12 Kernel Panic:

Diagnostics Information (past 7-30 days):

2021-09-14 20:49:25 Kernel Panic (12 times)

Details:

panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff80113fe9b8): watchdog timeout: no checkins

from watchdogd in 98 seconds (91 total checkins since monitoring last

enabled)


Has anyone run into a similar problem or can point me in the right direction to fix this issue?


Thanks in advance and any help is appreciated,


Alejandro

MacBook

Posted on Sep 14, 2021 7:16 PM

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Posted on Sep 15, 2021 2:10 AM

Kernel panics - This system has experienced kernel panics. This could be a sign of hardware failure.


After the good trouble shooting :-)) you have done, Safe Boot, format and reinstalling several time - this vintage Fanless MacBook from 2015 might in fact have a Hardware issue.


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Sep 15, 2021 2:10 AM in response to jafrancov

Kernel panics - This system has experienced kernel panics. This could be a sign of hardware failure.


After the good trouble shooting :-)) you have done, Safe Boot, format and reinstalling several time - this vintage Fanless MacBook from 2015 might in fact have a Hardware issue.


Find an Apple Authorized Service Provider nearest your location. Just input Country and City Information


Oct 1, 2021 6:49 PM in response to Owl-53

Well... apparently I have solve my issue, tried everything, but what worked for me, was drain the whole battery, try to start it to fully drain it, this for whatever energy that left in circuits, until nothing was showed in the screen even the display to show the empty battery, after a little while, I plugged it again, power it on, and, no more restarts.


I hope this help someone with the same issue.

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