Random Shutdown on Macbook Pro (15" mid 2014)

Having the same problem here, CANNOT BELIEVE apple have ignored this and are forcing users to shell out 500 quid to replace the logic board. So far, from reading forums I've heard of the following fixes, please add below if any other fixes are available

- Plug in a dummy Ethernet or a Hdmi plug

- Something about Thermal Paste

Disgusting how the fix costs half of what was spent on the bloody laptop! Shame on Apple.

As I was writing a reply my MBP Mid 2014 15 Inches randomly crashed... again. 8 times this morning. We have two of those in our house, bought at different times and different places and they both do exactly the same. Went to the "genius" bar, tried all the tricks below. Same thing. The geniuses idea was to replace the mother board. Yeah right. As in buy a new computer. Less then 3 years old! And I am not alone. This problem is on all those 2014 MPB. The most expensive MBP of the line in that year. Apple needs to acknowledge there was a defect and start doing something for us. This is ridiculous and they have the means to fix it or at least give us some discount on a replacement. Worst part is I really like this laptop, now it is going to be a brick and I am out $6K (for two of them). What do we need to have Apple take notice? I spend so much money with that company... it ***** so much I am starting to think about dropping everything from them.

Thanks nicjazz for following up on this. I saw the plug-in but was also worried it was a scam. Not about the money, more about wilfully loading an unverified app. The other thing is I would imagine that Apple would have also come up with that fix if it was that simple. The point with Apple right now is that they are simply ignoring the issue, and it is not going away. Again thanks so much for your work and clear outlay of what is happening. I'll keep pounding at the door, see if anyone even answers. Let me know what you find out:-) Thanks.

I'm having this exact issue as well. It's already the second logic board in a row I'm having this problem with. Had the first one replaced. Honestly I have had nothing but trouble with this machine (MacBook Pro mid-2014, intel iris pro 5200). Everything is already replaced except for the base plate (which is just a piece of aluminium). Downloaded the app from https://realmacmods.com/product/macbook-pro-nocrash-utility/. Hope it works for me. After installation when you click the spinning gear icon in the top menu bar, it states 0% completed. This should stay like this right? Using the laptop for 15 minutes now. Going good so far. Thanks guys!

Is there a way in which we can band together and put some pressure on Apple about this? Maybe forcing them to replace the faulty models with a different one. I'm absolutely stoked that I have my laptop working again thanks to the Macmod guy(s). But I still think this is a little too convenient for Apple. All these laptops shutting down, leaving no crash reports, making it impossible to find the problem and always resulting in a sale of a logic board. I'm on my second one experiencing this problem. Let's find a way to put pressure on this company.

They don't acknowledge this because that would mean admitting that aaaallll those people who have already bought a new logicboard for €700, did it because a fault on their side, it's a problem which already exists for a couple of years. This is scandal material.

Thanks for the method. And I have tried your way.

For my mac, I still got no luck to get rid of it. 😐

BTW, if we do step 4) and then step 5), the terminal response "read-only and cannot be moved", I move those files in the Normal mode, not in the recovery mode.

For us here, we have two MBP Mid2014 bought at different times and with different OS. When they both started to do the same thing (shutting down for no reasons) I started to wonder… if they BOTH do that, more then likely they ALL (or a LOT of them at least) do that. So back to the thread here, how do we get Apple to pay notice? Being the old US of A, I would ask, does anyone know a lawyer who would like to get Apple to pay notice? I am saying this thinking there has to be a LOT of us out there, and yes, Apple should just do a fix that does not kill the battery life and allows us to work on our MBP for what they are worth.

Is the Thunderbolt Ethernet driver affected only in High Sierra? Isn't the cure just a side-effect of turning off a mandatory driver? E.g. there might be an infinite loop checking some condition related to the Ethernet driver, which could put some load on CPU and thus prevent a shutdown. Did you observe any shut offs on Sierra?

I've rolled back to Sierra, and it works fine for me now. I'd like to try your solution, but it would take a whole day to upgrade to High Sierra then downgrade back if the proposed solution won't work.

Is it possible that apple fixed our problem in a background stealth big brother way? I have been running without nocrash_mbp for 2 days now with no crash. And fans seem to act normally now. Anybody has the same thing happening?

That is a very good point as the problem seems to show up a couple of years down the road. Again, my big question is WHY doesn’t APPLE looks into the issue, since it looks like we know the problem? Anyone from Apple reading those blogs?

Same issue as described above. I'm on my 3rd genius bar visit after twice they claimed to have run diagnostics and resolved it. I've done the full battery of tests you can do on your own. They've stress tested it and ran their own diagnostics on it twice and clean reinstalled the OS on their own (after I did it on my own before bringing it in and it didnt resolve it) and nothing has resolved it. I'm not sure what to tell them so they don't keep running diagnostics and giving me false alarms. I get it's difficult to see and reproduce. Sometimes it will stay oj for hours but without fail it starts randomly shutting down all over again. Getting very frustrated with their service.

Yes, I also think so, I have been dealing with this stupid issue for 6 months now, calling, texting and going to the stupid genius bar and useless waste of time. It's as if they are ignoring this issue. We really need to do something about this.

Hi Jonathan,

Fantastic, it is working, thank you for finding a way to get around this.

This way I do not have to keep the Thunderbolt / Ethernet adapter.

I have to admit, that I am glad I had this issue, this way I discovered we can install native Windows 10 on a MacBookPro, which is useful for web development when we need to test a website on Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge

Best

Dennis

Exactly, this is why Apple should fix this issue, because if it becomes wide spread on social media that Windows 10 is more robust and works better than MacOS even on a MBP, it will not look good for Apple.