MBP crashes when nobody is looking.....problem disappeared yesterday.
This problem has been with me for a number of years - I had it on a Mac Mini, my previous and current MBPs. The MBPs were Time Machine backups of the Mac Mini, and then the first MBP. Crashes were random - don't think I was using the computer more than once when it crashed - would come back and the machine had re-booted. Recently, for a couple of months, the computer would present with a colourful screen, asking for log in name and password after crashing - put those in and it would finish booting.
I had tried many different things to see if it was a particular program that was running, or whether Parallels was running, etc., but it would seemingly happen in any configuration.
As this happened over a number of operating systems, and three different pieces of hardware (I'd installed a clean OS on two of the computers, which then had no problems), I have assumed it was something in the OS or a running program. I was fairly sure it was not hardware related (although I had thought it was with the Mac Mini, hence moving to the MBP, but it followed the computer config). And that Mac Mini still operates without a problem.
Since yesterday's OS update (latest Big Sur 11.6.5), the problem has nor appeared.
It has been as stable as.
I am so curious to know what changed with the latest update. But will probably never know.
I give thanks to the OS gods at Apple! I have put up with this for so long because re-building all the programs I use on a new OS install would have taken too much time. <g>
Sometimes procrastination can be beneficial!
This problem has been with me for a number of years - I had it on a Mac Mini, my previous and current MBPs. The MBPs were Time Machine backups of the Mac Mini, and then the first MBP. Crashes were random - don't think I was using the computer more than once when it crashed - would come back and the machine had re-booted. Recently, for a couple of months, the computer would present with a colourful screen, asking for log in name and password after crashing - put those in and it would finish booting.
I had tried many different things to see if it was a particular program that was running, or whether Parallels was running, etc., but it would seemingly happen in any configuration.
As this happened over a number of operating systems, and three different pieces of hardware (I'd installed a clean OS on two of the computers, which then had no problems), I have assumed it was something in the OS or a running program. I was fairly sure it was not hardware related (although I had thought it was with the Mac Mini, hence moving to the MBP, but it followed the computer config). And that Mac Mini still operates without a problem.
Since yesterday's OS update (latest Big Sur 11.6.5), the problem has nor appeared.
It has been as stable as.
I am so curious to know what changed with the latest update. But will probably never know.
I give thanks to the OS gods at Apple! I have put up with this for so long because re-building all the programs I use on a new OS install would have taken too much time. <g>
Sometimes procrastination can be beneficial!