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Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting.

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.portables, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting.
Date	2016-02-12 06:11 +0000
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Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have an used 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina; 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 
> i7; 16 GB of RAM 1600 MHz DDR3; NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1 GB of VRAM; 250 
> GB SSD; Mac OS X v10.10.5 [Yosemite]) that is locking up hard and 
> autorebooting once in a while. It has been happening since summer 2015. 
> I think it is only happening when it is heavily used in the warm and hot 
> weathers (~80F degrees indoor for today's crash) like when I use 64-bit 
> Windows 7 EE SP1 VM in VMware Fusion. I can feel heat on the keyboard 
> case and from the keys so I assume it is heat related.
> 
> I did not have any problems when it was cold like in the 60-70F degrees 
> indoor. In the past, I have seen this happen. I even saw one time 
> showing a kernel panic on screen.
> 
> Is there a way to check with stress test (e.g, Prime95) like in Windows? 
> I checked with CheckMyApp and it shows both side fans spinning over 2K 
> RPMs. Even forcing 5K RPMs work loudly so the fans do work so I doubt it 
> is a fan issue.
> 
> Thank you in advance. :)

Have you checked to see if it is part of the recall?:

<https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/>

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15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-02-11 16:34 -0600
  Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-02-12 06:11 +0000
    Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-02-12 11:37 -0600
      Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-02-12 17:54 +0000
        Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-02-12 14:28 -0600
          Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-02-12 22:36 +0000
            Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-02-12 20:24 -0600
              Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-02-13 02:54 +0000
                Re: 15" MacBook Pro (early 2013; Retina) locking up hard and autorebooting. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-02-13 12:27 -0600

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