Q: Symptom of failed logic board
Need some assistance determining if the logic board in my MBP has failed.
Last week I began having random application crashes, affecting all programs - native and third party. The crashes become so frequent that the system became unusable. At first I thought something went wrong with the OWC SSD I put in three months ago. So I booted up to a USB drive and after a few minutes the same thing began happening. At this point I now suspect the Crucial RAM I installed last year, so I reinstalled the original OEM RAM. No change. The system is now so unstable it crashes before the disk decryption can finish when logging in.
I tried using the recovery console to put a fresh install of OS X on a drive, but the installation always aborts with different errors.
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Sep 13, 2016 4:37 PM