Kernel panic after hdd>ssd upgrade on iMac 5k 2015 late

[goodbad]

Hi. So recently I’ve Upgraded my iMac with Samsung ssd 860 evo 500gb
But every day I get kernel panics, randomly
Why? Any help appreciated
Update: what I've done
Apple hardware test - check
GPU stress test (heaven benchmark). - check
Installed clean Mojave - testing...

Spoiler: Log

panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff8000a666aa): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f83e02620, type 14=page fault, registers:

CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0xffffff8039fed0f0, CR3: 0x0000000005fc4000, CR4: 0x00000000003626e0

RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0xffffff826eb37000, RDX: 0x0000000000000000

RSP: 0xffffff9aee42bd40, RBP: 0xffffff9aee42bd40, RSI: 0x0000109f9d38180f, RDI: 0xffffff8039fed000

R8: 0xffffff826eb37000, R9: 0x0000000000000b22, R10: 0x0000000000000400, R11: 0xffffff8036705ba0

R12: 0x0000109f9d38180f, R13: 0xffffff8036758800, R14: 0x0000109f9d38b16a, R15: 0xffffff8039fed000

RFL: 0x0000000000010286, RIP: 0xffffff7f83e02620, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010

Fault CR2: 0xffffff8039fed0f0, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Fault CPU: 0x1, PL: 0, VF: 1


Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address

0xffffff9aee42b7a0 : 0xffffff800093d5fb

0xffffff9aee42b7f0 : 0xffffff8000a74815

0xffffff9aee42b830 : 0xffffff8000a662fb

0xffffff9aee42b880 : 0xffffff80008e3bb0

0xffffff9aee42b8a0 : 0xffffff800093cce7

0xffffff9aee42b9a0 : 0xffffff800093d0cb

0xffffff9aee42b9f0 : 0xffffff80010ce2a9

0xffffff9aee42ba60 : 0xffffff8000a666aa

0xffffff9aee42bbe0 : 0xffffff8000a663ac

0xffffff9aee42bc30 : 0xffffff80008e3bb0

0xffffff9aee42bc50 : 0xffffff7f83e02620

0xffffff9aee42bd40 : 0xffffff7f83e51068

0xffffff9aee42bdb0 : 0xffffff7f83e4fb7e

0xffffff9aee42bdf0 : 0xffffff7f83e4f0c4

0xffffff9aee42be20 : 0xffffff8001044149

0xffffff9aee42be90 : 0xffffff8001044069

0xffffff9aee42bec0 : 0xffffff800097f0c5

0xffffff9aee42bf40 : 0xffffff800097ebf1

0xffffff9aee42bfa0 : 0xffffff80008e313e

Kernel Extensions in backtrace:

com.apple.kext.AMDRadeonX4000(3.0)[8E241B90-9766-36C7-A66D-74EB7B68532F]@0xffffff7f83dfc000->0xffffff7f8423dfff

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[285E5773-2065-3AB6-A001-012910F8665F]@0xffffff7f812a8000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSurface(269.6)[3E3E4BEE-6FBC-30BB-BB37-ADBB93513060]@0xffffff7f82e1d000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(557)[21B2E1AE-9952-3C62-B79A-F44C9D333EF4]@0xffffff7f81d83000

dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2(438.1.13)[F484E76E-1D69-3587-AAD0-569C844EBB7F]@0xffffff7f82e4e000


BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task


Mac OS version:

19A512f


Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 19.0.0: Thu Jul 11 18:37:36 PDT 2019; root:xnu-6153.0.59.141.4~1/RELEASE_X86_64

Kernel UUID: 94E541DB-A7EA-3FB9-AE8A-75F775E67241

Kernel slide: 0x0000000000600000

Kernel text base: 0xffffff8000800000

__HIB text base: 0xffffff8000700000

System model name: iMac17,1 (Mac-DB15BD556843C820)


System uptime in nanoseconds: 18277730488470

last loaded kext at 6972050887248: >!AXsanScheme 3 (addr 0xffffff7f85645000, size 32768)

last unloaded kext at 1178163713782: >!A!ILpssGspi 3.0.60 (addr 0xffffff7f83da0000, size 45056)

loaded kexts:

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp 6.0.10

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt 6.0.10

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB 6.0.10

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv 6.0.10

@filesystems.smbfs 3.4

>!ATopCaseHIDEventDriver 151

>AudioAUUC 1.70

@fileutil 20.036.15

@filesystems.autofs 3.0

>!AMikeyHIDDriver 131

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>!APlatformEnabler 2.7.0d0

>X86PlatformShim 1.0.0

>!AHDA 283.13

@kext.AMDRadeonServiceManager 3.0.0

>!AUpstreamUserClient 3.6.8

@kext.AMDFramebuffer 3.0.0

@kext.AMDRadeonX4000 3.0.0

>!AGraphicsDevicePolicy 4.1.30

@AGDCPluginDisplayMetrics 4.1.30

>!AHV 1

|IOUserEthernet 1.0.1

|IO!BSerialManager 7.0.0d98

>!A!ISKLGraphics 14.0.0

>pmtelemetry 1

@Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0

>!A!ISlowAdaptiveClocking 4.0.0

>!A!ISKLGraphicsFramebuffer 14.0.0

>!AMikeyDriver 283.13

>eficheck 1

@kext.AMD7000!C 3.0.0

>!AMCCSControl 1.10

>!A!IPCHPMC 2.0.1

|Broadcom!B20703USBTransport 7.0.0d98

>!AThunderboltIP 3.1.2

>!ASMCLMU 212

>!AVirtIO 1.0

@filesystems.hfs.kext 520

@!AFSCompression.!AFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1

@BootCache 40

@!AFSCompression.!AFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0

|!ABCM5701Ethernet 10.3.5

>AirPort.BrcmNIC 1400.1.1

>!ASDXC 1.7.7

@filesystems.apfs 1409.0.0

>!AAHCIPort 341.0.2

@private.KextAudit 1.0

>!ARTC 2.0

>!AACPIButtons 6.1

>!AHPET 1.8

>!ASMBIOS 2.1

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>!AAPIC 1.7

$!AImage4 1

@nke.applicationfirewall 301

$TMSafetyNet 8

@!ASystemPolicy 2.0.0

|EndpointSecurity 1

>!AXsanScheme 3

>!UAudio 320.46

>usb.cdc 5.0.0

>!AHIDKeyboard 209

>!AMultitouchDriver 3000.30

>!AInputDeviceSupport 3000.24

>!AHS!BDriver 151

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|IOAVB!F 800.13

>!ASSE 1.0

@!AGPUWrangler 4.1.30

|IOSlowAdaptiveClocking!F 1.0.0

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@kext.AMDSupport 3.0.0

@!AGraphicsDeviceControl 4.1.30

|Broadcom!BHost!CUSBTransport 7.0.0d98

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|IO!BHost!CTransport 7.0.0d98

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|IO!BPacketLogger 7.0.0d98

>X86PlatformPlugin 1.0.0

>IOPlatformPlugin!F 6.0.0d8

>!AThunderboltEDMSink 4.2.0

>!AHDA!C 283.13

|IOHDA!F 283.13

|IOGraphics!F 557

>!ASMBus!C 1.0.18d1

>!ASMBusPCI 1.0.14d1

@plugin.IOgPTPPlugin 800.12

|IOAudio!F 300.2

@vecLib.kext 1.2.0

>usb.networking 5.0.0

>usb.!UHostCompositeDevice 1.2

|IOSerial!F 11

|IOSurface 269.6

@filesystems.hfs.encodings.kext 1

>!AThunderboltDPOutAdapter 6.1.7

>!AThunderboltDPInAdapter 6.1.7

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>!ABusPower!C 1.0

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>!AACPIPlatform 6.1

>!ASMC 3.1.9

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@kec.pthread 1

@kec.corecrypto 1.0

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[mikehalloran]

Not nearly enough information.

OS?

Was it HDD or Fusion before?

What's the error? Just the first few lines.

Is this your boot drive? How did you create it?

 

[goodbad]

Catalina.
It was fusion drive. Now it is single drive
The error was like “ your computer restarted because of a problem. Press a key or wait a few seconds to continue staring up”
It is my boot drive
I’ve formatted it and clean install from internet recovery. hope that helps

for now I’ve clean installed Mojave. Testing on it.

 

[mikehalloran]

Probably for the best.

To give it a major boost, replace that blade with a 970 EVO and the short Simtech adapter. The results will be 5–6x faster than that 860 and more than double the speed of the AHCI blade that was installed s part of the fusion array.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-1TB-MZ-V7E1T0BW/dp/B07BN217QG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3B2147BCWEH1I&keywords=970+evo&qid=1564447743&s=gateway&sprefix=970,aps,202&sr=8-1&th=1
+
https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2016-2013-2015/dp/B07FYY3H5F/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2MD823F0HGVVT&keywords=sintech+ngff+m.2+nvme+ssd+adapter&qid=1564448122&s=gateway&sprefix=Sintech,aps,207&sr=8-3

There are less expensive NVMe 3 x4 blades such as the Intel 660p but they’re a lot slower.

Download the complete Mojave installer to your 860 and run it from there when the time comes. The 970 cannot be used for internet recovery.

The late 2015 iMac was unique in that Apple upgraded to a 4-lane data bus but uses a 1 lane chip. WTF? Installing a 970 gives you the near equivalent of a 2017 SSD iMac but with Thunderbolt 2 instead of TB3.

No one says you have to do this anytime soon — or even at all — but, your 2015 has hidden, untapped potential if you ever want to access it.

 

[nemoryoliver]

Probably for the best.

To give it a major boost, replace that blade with a 970 EVO and the short Simtech adapter. The results will be 5–6x faster than that 860 and more than double the speed of the AHCI blade that was installed s part of the fusion array.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-1TB-MZ-V7E1T0BW/dp/B07BN217QG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3B2147BCWEH1I&keywords=970+evo&qid=1564447743&s=gateway&sprefix=970,aps,202&sr=8-1&th=1
+
https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2016-2013-2015/dp/B07FYY3H5F/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2MD823F0HGVVT&keywords=sintech+ngff+m.2+nvme+ssd+adapter&qid=1564448122&s=gateway&sprefix=Sintech,aps,207&sr=8-3

There are less expensive NVMe 3 x4 blades such as the Intel 660p but they’re a lot slower.

Download the complete Mojave installer to your 860 and run it from there when the time comes. The 970 cannot be used for internet recovery.

The late 2015 iMac was unique in that Apple upgraded to a 4-lane data bus but uses a 1 lane chip. WTF? Installing a 970 gives you the near equivalent of a 2017 SSD iMac but with Thunderbolt 2 instead of TB3.

No one says you have to do this anytime soon — or even at all — but, your 2015 has hidden, untapped potential if you ever want to access it.

Hi mikelhalloran! Just curious and wanted to learn. You said "Download the complete Mojave installer to your 860 and run it from there when the time comes. The 970 cannot be used for internet recovery." When will we need internet recovery? Like when the NVMe SSD is damaged or the OS gets corrupted or something? Also you mean it's best to have a backup internal SATA III SSD with Mac OS/Mojave installed just incase? Thanks a lot!

 

[mikehalloran]

Normally any Mac from 2012 on can be set to factory specs through internet recovery. It must have had OS 10.7 or later originally. A 3rd party NVMe 3 x4 blade does not support this. This is a ground-up erase and restore. You boot directly into Internet Recovery and link to Apple for this.

This is not the same as reinstalling the current OS via the internet which can be done on any Mac running OS 10.7 or later. This reinstalls the OS only and does not affect data on the drive. Big difference. You boot into the Repair Partition for this.

With High Sierra on, you cannot boot into the Repair Partition if there’s any other Mac OS available on a partition or another drive.

However, you can boot from an external usb drive. You can install the Mac OS if there’s a complete installer on that drive. It can be a SSD or a USB stick, 8GB or larger (some newer cheap ones don’t work for this but most do.

 

[goodbad]

Probably for the best.

To give it a major boost, replace that blade with a 970 EVO and the short Simtech adapter. The results will be 5–6x faster than that 860 and more than double the speed of the AHCI blade that was installed s part of the fusion array.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-1TB-MZ-V7E1T0BW/dp/B07BN217QG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3B2147BCWEH1I&keywords=970+evo&qid=1564447743&s=gateway&sprefix=970,aps,202&sr=8-1&th=1
+
https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2016-2013-2015/dp/B07FYY3H5F/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2MD823F0HGVVT&keywords=sintech+ngff+m.2+nvme+ssd+adapter&qid=1564448122&s=gateway&sprefix=Sintech,aps,207&sr=8-3

There are less expensive NVMe 3 x4 blades such as the Intel 660p but they’re a lot slower.

Download the complete Mojave installer to your 860 and run it from there when the time comes. The 970 cannot be used for internet recovery.

The late 2015 iMac was unique in that Apple upgraded to a 4-lane data bus but uses a 1 lane chip. WTF? Installing a 970 gives you the near equivalent of a 2017 SSD iMac but with Thunderbolt 2 instead of TB3.

No one says you have to do this anytime soon — or even at all — but, your 2015 has hidden, untapped potential if you ever want to access it.

The funniest part is that I choose SATA ssd because of stability. I’ve seen some issues on forums with sintech + nvme ssd. But the life is full of irony, right?
For now I would like to stick with SATA ssd, I just don’t want to fully disassemble imac. Still testing Mojave

Much appreciate for advice tho. I'm pretty sure you're right and the nvme SSD gonna make my iMac more powerful

 

[goodbad]

2nd day on Mojave and no Kernel Panic so far. Seems like Catalina issue