Q: Sporadic crashes/kernel panics after switching to new mac
Hey everyone I'm really hoping that someone here can help me with a problem I've been having
In late December I accidentally water damaged my 2011 13' MacBook Pro, resulting in loss of keyboard function, however the computer was still workable. And I made do until the beginning of March when I bought a second hand 2012 13' 2.5GHz MacBook Pro.
I put the ram and harddrive from my old MacBook into the new one, and everything worked fine....for the first 5 days
However I began to experience crashes(kernel panics?) where any number of things would happen...
Most commonly the computer would freeze, briefly followed by an immediate reboot, followed by a error message saying something like "your computer restarted because of a problem"(after logging in)
It also presents as the computer freezing, with the sudden appearance of scattered purple/blue lines, and I am forced to hard reset. This is followed by the same error message as before.
I have also encountered problems with the computer not responding after being put to sleep(however this may have been fixed when I reset the SMC, hasn't happened for a while).
Does anyone have any suggestions as to things I could check or possible causes of this? Cause I have no clue.....
These problems have happened under all sorts of different conditions different, work loads, ect.
I Also can't find anything difinitive in the console in regarded to any specific crash, and there's nothing consistent between them.
Things I have done:
-Reset PRAM/NVRAM
-Reset SMC
-Repaired disk permissions
-Ran apple diagnostics
-Stress tested processor using "yes" command
-Tested ram with memtest
Any thought you have would be greatly appreciated!
~P
Posted on Mar 10, 2015 3:02 PM
