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Hi — I’m experiencing kernel panics every single time my 2012 MacBook Pro wakes from sleep. Running El Capitan 10.11.3. I’ve contacted Apple about this at least 3 dozen times over the last 2.5 years, and the best I’ve ever achieved is a stay of execution for about a week — then it’s back to the same. Have tried everything you can think of and that I’ve read in posts like this, no change. I have the full report but didn’t want to paste it in here unless someone told me it was appropriate to do so. I have ZERO knowledge of what anything in the report even means, so much of what I read in other forums only confuses me further. If anyone is wiling to help me figure this out I’d be forever in your debt. Thanks!
Take it to Apple or an ASP and have it tested for this recall if it is the 15" i7 2012 model: https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro… What has Apple told you that did fix it or give you that “Stay of execution”? What fixes have you tried? Do you know if this is a hardware of software issue? Has the machine ever been opened?
Do you have access to a second Mac system? If you do you’ll want to connect your Mac to the other using either a FireWire or Thunderbolt cable back to back. Then you’ll start up your Mac holding the letter T for Target Mode. Using the other Mac you should see your Mac as if it was an external drive, now we want to run Disk Utility and repair both the permissions & disk. Once done give your system a restart to see if it’s better. If not you’ll want to copy off anything important as you’ll need to completely wipe the drive down and test it using the zero ones over write. Once the drive is finish being tested you then need to install a fresh copy of the OS and your apps. Update (01/26/2016) At this point I think you do need to wipe the drive and slowly add back your apps given the crash report. The other way you could diagnostically prove if the drive or the files on it was the issue would be to have a good clean external drive which you could boot up under. If the system is stable with the alternate copy of OS that would be the proof.
