Ran my MBP in diagnostic mode (no faults detected) I don't know what causes the WindowServer to stop working either.ĭone a Disk Util first aid (no faults detected) I don't know how to tackle the issue, or what to do to fix it. The freeze happens anywhere from 0 to 10 times a day, it's very random. So according to my current diagnostics, it seems that the WindowServer keeps getting unresponsive, which I think is the cause of the freezes as well. Occasionally, it has happened that my MBP just immediately crashes instead of freezing, which according to the crash report was caused by a kernel panic caused by the WindowServer being unresponsive. No sound, no visual feedback, my desktop just completely freezes, forcing me to restart it by holding down the power button. The only thing that still works is my cursor, which I'm able to move everywhere, but that's it. MBP (15-inch, 2018) completely freezes, forced to restart with power button Lately my MBP has been having this weird issue where it just completely freezes, and there's nothing I can do with it anymore. Sometimes when MBP is frozen I can move the mouse icon without an issue.Īny solutions other than waiting for the next Update or buying a new hard drive to try a fresh install?

Time Machine does not have a local snapshot prior to the 2020-02 updateīooted into recovery mode to reinstall macOS and I get a 'Request Timed Out' errorĪble to perform tasks for appx 10 seconds before I recieve the Spinning Wheel and MBP freezes for 2-3 minutes. Ran full Apple Hardware test with no issues found Kernel_task is at 3.4% when it is usable and 48.1% when frozen as I type this message.

It took 40 minutes just to boot up and get to the Apple Support pages before I decided to borrow another laptop to post this message. Security Update 2020-002 applied on 5/10/20 and MBP has been unusable ever since. Early 2011 MBP running High Sierra 10.13.6.

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