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USB MOUSE USE CAUSING CRASHES?

OSX 10.13.4 I have repeated crashes when using my USB Mouse. I can be clicking on a you tube video and the mouse freezes that the Mac Crashes. I an be using my Mouse in Word, and it crashes. I can just move it and click on an Icon, and it crashes? This new OSX is very unstable as I have also had numerous crashes from various reasons and have re-installed this ISX Version more than any I have had since the days of Leesa. I feel Apple is using us as a Beta Test group? All I know is I back up daily now as I know the next crash is just around the corner. Please fix the system Apple?

Posted on Apr 21, 2018 2:58 PM

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Posted on Apr 22, 2018 8:49 PM

compressed PTE 0xfffffeb6638b1598 0x7d00000000000000 has extra bits 0x1d00000000000000: corrupted?


PTE is page table entry, which is used in managing virtual memory for each process and the kernel.


Bits in the PTE were corrupted. The page tables are stored in RAM. I suspect failing RAM.


You have 3rd party RAM, which is very common to have failures

Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x802C, 0x31364A5353353132363448592D3147314131

Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x802C, 0x31364A5353353132363448592D3147314131

Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM1, 4 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3030352E4130324C4620

Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 4 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3030352E4130324C4620

0x31364A5353353132363448592D3147314131-> hex2ascii -> 16JSS51264HY-1G1A1 -> Google says this is Micron RAM

0x393930353432382D3030352E4130324C4620 -> hex2ascii -> 9905428-005.A02LF -> Google says this is Kingston RAM


Things you can try:

  • Put the original Apple RAM back in your Mac and see if the problem goes away.
  • Remove one DIMM at a time and see if eventually when one of the 4 is removed the problem goes away
  • Try running Rember overnight and see if it can find a problem. It may not, as PTEs are kept in kernel memory and if the bad RAM bits are always in kernel address space, Rember will not be able to exercise them


<http://www.kelleycomputing.net/rember/>

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Quit as many apps and background tasks as you can (such as menu bar items) so more RAM is available for testing. Booting into Safe mode <http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1564> can also free up more RAM for testing, by not loading any 3rd party additions you may have installed.

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Set Loops: [X] Maximum

and run overnight


  • Contact your RAM vendors are ask for replacements.
  • Return your RAM for a refund, and get RAM from another vendor. OWC <http://MacSales.com> and Crucial <http://Crucial.com> are well respected Mac RAM vendors. If you actually got RAM from either of these, their customer support is rather good.

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