My Mac has randomly restarted with the above message every 3-4 days for the last month. Last 2 days its at least twice a day that I know of. Can someone who knows what they are looking at please help? I suspect hardware but I'm not an expert.
Well your DriveDX report looks pretty good, I did not see anything alarming in it. That means you may have something else causing the KPs.
Another simple thing to do is to disconnect any external peripherals (external HDs, printers, scanners, hubs, cameras, etc....) and run the computer. If the KP's go away that is a hint that one of the peripherals is causing the problem and then it is a matter of trial and error to find the culprit. However if the KPs continue that means it may be software.
A common cause of software caused KP's is third party software that is out of date. So that is what you should check next, verify all third party apps are up-to-date as possible.
Well your DriveDX report looks pretty good, I did not see anything alarming in it. That means you may have something else causing the KPs.
Another simple thing to do is to disconnect any external peripherals (external HDs, printers, scanners, hubs, cameras, etc....) and run the computer. If the KP's go away that is a hint that one of the peripherals is causing the problem and then it is a matter of trial and error to find the culprit. However if the KPs continue that means it may be software.
A common cause of software caused KP's is third party software that is out of date. So that is what you should check next, verify all third party apps are up-to-date as possible.
Your computer is getting kernel Panics, which can be caused by either hardware or software. The most common causes of hardware related KP's are RAM and a failing HD.
Your iMac has 16GB of RAM, is that the original RAM that shipped with the computer? If it is great, however if you upgraded the RAM yourself please answer these 2 questions:
This is what I came up with
I haven’t made any hardware changes to the machine.
Then my guess would be the HD is failing. I would recommend that you get DriveDx (google it) and test your HD to check it's health.
Will give it a try. Thank you very much
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8009ed41c6): Sleep transition timed out after 180 seconds while calling power state change callbacks.
