MacBook Air M2, freezes, flashes a purple screen then restarts

I have a 2022 MacBook Air M2, and its started freezing up (screen still on, no beachball, just frozen), then after maybe 30 seconds or so it will flash a purple screen, and then it restarts.


This happens sometimes several times in a day, and sometimes only occasionally, and can sometimes go days without happening. It also seems - based on the "your computer restarted because of a problem" popup - to happen sometimes when it's in standby (i.e. I closed the lid and left it for half a day).


I don't have a huge amount of stuff installed on it, and I don't tinker too much under the hood. I've removed several things to try and isolate the problem, but it seems to not have changed anything. I don't have it connected to any external monitors or drives.



Does anyone have any ideas where I can start troubleshooting this? I've attached the etrecheck report for more info.


MacBook Air, macOS 15.1

Posted on Jan 11, 2025 09:12 AM

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Posted on Jan 11, 2025 01:02 PM

After searching "ANS2" on the internet someone else replied in the Community:


"ANS2 == Apple NAND Storage 2 which means SSD.

And a Bitflip is just as it sounds, one of the bits has changed its value.

This is most likely a hardware issue of some sort, most likely with the Logic Board, unless you find an external Thunderbolt SSD is causing it.

You can try running the Apple Diagnostics to see if any hardware issues are detected."

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Jan 11, 2025 01:02 PM in response to CoolnFunky

After searching "ANS2" on the internet someone else replied in the Community:


"ANS2 == Apple NAND Storage 2 which means SSD.

And a Bitflip is just as it sounds, one of the bits has changed its value.

This is most likely a hardware issue of some sort, most likely with the Logic Board, unless you find an external Thunderbolt SSD is causing it.

You can try running the Apple Diagnostics to see if any hardware issues are detected."

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