Why is OS X 10.10 randomly crashing?
Hello Friends!
I recently purchased this computer from a close friend who completely wiped the iMac and installed Yosemite 10.10.3. (This computer is solely used for Logic Pro X with PreSonus Firepod 10)
I installed Logic Pro X and everything worked fine for a couple hours.
Shortly after that I installed a driver for Native Instruments Maschine and the problems started.
The computer would become unresponsive for a second, the screen would flash and it would shut down (although the fan continued to run). I would do a SMC reset along with zapping the PRAM. I end up on the "Your computer restarted because of a problem".
The problem continued so I updated to 10.10.5.
For about 8 days the computer worked perfectly and I thought the problem was solved with the update.
I was wrong.
About twice a day the computer will restart by itself and I end up on the "Your computer restarted because of a problem".
I am lost and have no clue what to do.
Thanks in advance!
Nathan
Update (02/03/2017)
Hi Dan,
I downgraded and am now on Mavericks. It worked well for about a week and the same thing started happening. I did a clean install and everything has been fine since but I know it is going to happen again. I read that I needed to install Nvidia drivers but I can't find one comparable for iMac 9'1.
Here is my Etrecheck: Etrecheck
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The needed drivers are part of the OS for the standard GPU's Apple ships. There are no additional drivers available.
How about posting the crash file so we can see whats happening. Please crate a answer and paste the file in like I did for your Etrecheck PDF file
Did you run the buit-in diagnostics? D at boot up? Did if report a failure?
by Dan