Kernel panics on a 2010 MBP

[Tex-Twil]

Hi,
I have an older MacBook Pro 15" (min 2010) that has randomly kernel panics and I wonder if there is way to diagnose it.

I did a clean install of macOS but it still crashes so I suspect a hardware issue. I ran the extended Apple Hardware Test from a bootable USB but it did not find any problems.

I also tried removing the memory and cleaning the slots.

I'm thinking about getting new ram but it is still quite expensive

Any ideas what else I could try to diagnose the problem? I'm well aware that it's an old mac but I'd like to make it somehow stable.

thanks,
Tex

 

[chrfr]

Hi,
I have an older MacBook Pro 15" (min 2010) that has randomly kernel panics and I wonder if there is way to diagnose it.

I did a clean install of macOS but it still crashes so I suspect a hardware issue. I ran the extended Apple Hardware Test from a bootable USB but it did not find any problems.

I'm thinking about getting new ram but it is still quite expensive

Any ideas what else I could try to diagnose the problem? I'm well aware that it's an old mac but I'd like to make it somehow stable.

thanks,
Tex

It's probably the graphics card (GPU) that's failing. There's a long thread here somewhere about it.

 

[Tex-Twil]

ok, I found some links. I'll try this https://github.com/julian-poidevin/MBPMid2010_GPUFix

UPDATE: The System Reports kernel panic indeed pointed to a "GPU Panic". I applied the patch above and I'm running some Cinebench test to see if it's stable.

Thanks for the tip!