System Crashing / Cannot Update
My 2016 12 in MacBook crashed for the first time a few days ago. I then went to update the system to 12.2 to see if that would prevent more crashes, but the download got stuck at a few hundred MB, and then crashed again. If I browse with Safari, eventually the system will also crash. I've managed to get the computer to work for a few hours listening to podcasts with the wi fi off, but eventually it crashed coming out of sleep. Also, the system will crash at the same point in the update download every time. It doesn't get to the actual Apple logo updating section. So far, I have tried:
Resetting PRAM / SMC
Booting in Safe mode
Downloading the update via the app store
Recovery Mode and reinstalling the OS (hangs at the same spot 2/3 complete every time, then crashes)
Accessing Terminal in recovery mode and using CSRutil disable to try and find the partially completed updates and delete them, but I couldn't. I enabled it again after I was done
Clean Up My Mac from the app store and checked for malware (there was none) I also tried to delete unwanted files in system clean up in the app, but hit the free trial limit (and I don't think that's gonna work)
I would try to revert to Big Sur, but it appears I need a memory stick to do that and I don't have one of those (and I don't think it's going to work). Anyone with a similar issue?
MacBook, macOS 12.1