Catalina keeps restarting every 20-30 minutes

[s2mike]

Just installed last night. Actually had my iMac completely lock up during the end of the installation when it was asking if I wanted to set up Screen Time now or later.

Now the OS keeps restarting itself every 20-30 minutes. When it boots up again, there’s a prompt that tells me that the computer restarted “because there was a problem.”

Gonna try doing a clean install. Apple is really blowing it with their software this year, huh?

 

[Super Spartan]

I always do clean installs for major OS upgrades, be it on a phone, Windows, or Mac! Upgrades NEVER go smoothly due to thousands of files/settings being changed.

 

[IowaLynn]

It may not have licked up. It seems like it. Some wait hours before then forcing a restart.

To me I think it was reorganizing my data and iCloud.

Clean install works. Boot off another drive. And save your copy of the installed first.

 

[chscag]

Sounds like you're getting kernel panics. Have you tried viewing the logs to see what might be causing the panics? You can copy and paste the log here to the forums for us to look at. You can also try starting your iMac in safe mode to see if the panics occur from there.

 

[s2mike]

Probably just gonna wipe my Mac completely and then install macOS from scratch. I don’t have any apps/data/documents on my computer anyway - it’s a 2012 iMac and is basically a paperweight anyway.