Suddenly getting kernel panics on Air

[nudoru]

My daughter's Air suddenly started crashing with kernel panics yesterday. Right now it'll panic on boot most of the time, but when it does let you login will crash with in a minute, even with no activity. I've tried to boot to safe mode and recovery and it won't boot to those either.

It's on Sierra. She has a restricted acct, so couldn't have installed anything without a password.

I have an appt w/ a Genius for Tuesday, but in the mean time is there anything I can do?

 

[madrich]

My daughter's Air suddenly started crashing with kernel panics yesterday. Right now it'll panic on boot most of the time, but when it does let you login will crash with in a minute, even with no activity. I've tried to boot to safe mode and recovery and it won't boot to those either.

It's on Sierra. She has a restricted acct, so couldn't have installed anything without a password.

I have an appt w/ a Genius for Tuesday, but in the mean time is there anything I can do?

I had the same situation with my old MBPro. The Apple Genius determined that I needed a new Mother/Logic Board. Check to make sure that Apple still supports your model and will repair it. Otherwise you may need to get it repaired by an outside source.

 

[nudoru]

After testing Apple determined that it was the logic board. It's started to have a lot of graphical satic, lines, etc. So maybe the GPU. Either way ... a $475 depot repair. Seems really high but nothing much to be done. The part alone is $300 ¯\_(シ)_/¯

 

[Audit13]

The GPU is built into the CPU and, since the CPU is soldered in place, $475 is not unreasonable if it's a logic board with 8 GB.