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havokhaven

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I bought a MacBook Air 13” A1932, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd, dual core intel i5 running 14.8.4 Sonoma for $50 which is all i could afford right now so please don't tell me I should have bought a new one or gotten a pro, i know I'm poor and broke. Anyway, it crashes at random times, usually a few minutes after startup, sometimes after I start doing something such as opening a window into an app, every time it restarts with the screen about a panic medic boot, a third-party kernel extension was preventing from successfully booting. It was already booted and running so that makes no sense. I have booted into safe mode and went to login services and theres nothing in the list for me to disable, I used terminal and stopped all extensions from starting, I ran diagnostics and everything comes back as good. It has a fresh install, nothing third party installed and only stock apps(all updated through app store). Is there something I’m missing or is there a fix google hasn't said yet?
 
A kernel extension wouldn't necessarily be in the login services to see and remove.
Do you have a snippet from the log files that says what the crash and extension is?

You could try a search of the computer for .kext ( not foolproof, but might flag something of interest)
 
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