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2017 MacBook Pro Retina crashing randomly

So my macbook started chrashing randomly in the last 3 days.

Day 1 it crashed once. Day 2 it did not crash. Day 3 it crashed twice in an hour.


Any help?


OS is Monterey 12.0.1



MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Jan 30, 2022 1:15 PM

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Posted on Jan 30, 2022 2:54 PM

Panicked task 0xffffff8564010500: 8 threads: pid 8502: Steam Helper


There it is....


You need to upgrade your Steam.

VirtualBox is a real memory hog too. Don't run it simultaneously to games that don't use it.

VPN is only needed if you are trying to block other people from seeing you, or are on a corporate network.

Macfancontrol is more placebo than helpful. You shouldn't be trying to optimize your fan speeds or trying to affect the heating of your machine through software. Overriding the Mac OS defaults is sure to cause panics.





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Jan 30, 2022 2:54 PM in response to CrazyKyo

Panicked task 0xffffff8564010500: 8 threads: pid 8502: Steam Helper


There it is....


You need to upgrade your Steam.

VirtualBox is a real memory hog too. Don't run it simultaneously to games that don't use it.

VPN is only needed if you are trying to block other people from seeing you, or are on a corporate network.

Macfancontrol is more placebo than helpful. You shouldn't be trying to optimize your fan speeds or trying to affect the heating of your machine through software. Overriding the Mac OS defaults is sure to cause panics.





Jan 30, 2022 3:16 PM in response to CrazyKyo

That can be just about anything.


Point is, it has overwhelmed the poor machine. Simplify. Cut out any memory resident program you don't need for the moment. If you have enough space, and want to optimize game performance, keep a separate partition with just the operating system and that game. Sadly, these machines don't have user replaceable memory anymore. So the next best option is memory management to isolate what is not working well with what else.

2017 MacBook Pro Retina crashing randomly

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