Macbook pro 2019 keeps crashing.
So my laptop started crashing weirdly couple of days ago. OS version is 10.15.7 Catalina. I use this for music making, so I'm not in hurry with updates. Logic Pro with lots of plugins from Native Instruments, Izotope, Toontrack and so on.
When troubles started I was not making music. So my Sound interface was not connected (Universal Audio apollo twin). First web pages started crashing in Chrome, Vs Code crashed (I code too) and such. I just rebooted and things somehow worked.
Then I tried to continue with Logic Pro yesterday (The latest version you can have in Catalina, 10.6.something), Always crashed when tried to open with project. Crashed the whole laptop. Tried without UA sound interface. Worked for a while then Logic crashed again.
I've done some things,
- Apple Diagnostics find no issue. I've run it couple of times
- I Safe Booted, it did not crash, but whole lot of things do not load or work while safe boot.
- I did SMC resetting
- I did NVRAM resetting.
- I have run disk utility, no problem occurred there.
I have couple of external SSL hard drives attached by usb cable or hub. Containing sound libraries etc.
I now tried again logic pro, without sound interface, and first without external hard drives attached. And no head phones, just through laptop speakers. Tested it for a while. Attached hard drives. Opened old existing project. Tested for a while. Then I attached headphones, and Logic crashed instantly. Also Web pages stopped working, Logic would not restart, even App Store would not start. I had to reboot.
This has been really top machine, only two years old, bought in July 2020. And I paid a lot for it. So this is quite frustrating.
Hardware overview:
Model Identifier: MacBookPro16,1
Processor Name: 8-Core Intel Core i9
Processor Speed: 2,3 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 16 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 64 GB
and 2T flash hard drive, only half filled.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15