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Determine what is causing random restart
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<blockquote data-quote="galchin" data-source="post: 1808393" data-attributes="member: 401372"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>Over the last 12 months my 2011 Mac Mini has started to randomly restart. It could be part way through boot up, 20 minutes after restart or a couple of hours. There could be no load (sitting idle) or during any form of load. Generally once it has restarted like this a few times in a row it gets into a loop during boot and hangs with the fan going mental. I did all the normal checks and resets with no luck.</p><p></p><p>Originally I thought it was something to do with High Sierra so I went back to El Capitan but its doing the same thing.</p><p></p><p>What is interesting is this.... when I run it in Safe Boot mode it won't restart. Ever. Based on this I can rule out some hardware such as power supply, wifi, and heat issues. </p><p></p><p>My next check was to see if I could disable individual components in a similar way to safe boot to try and isolate the fault. Is anyone aware of how this could be achieved?</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="galchin, post: 1808393, member: 401372"] Hi, Over the last 12 months my 2011 Mac Mini has started to randomly restart. It could be part way through boot up, 20 minutes after restart or a couple of hours. There could be no load (sitting idle) or during any form of load. Generally once it has restarted like this a few times in a row it gets into a loop during boot and hangs with the fan going mental. I did all the normal checks and resets with no luck. Originally I thought it was something to do with High Sierra so I went back to El Capitan but its doing the same thing. What is interesting is this.... when I run it in Safe Boot mode it won't restart. Ever. Based on this I can rule out some hardware such as power supply, wifi, and heat issues. My next check was to see if I could disable individual components in a similar way to safe boot to try and isolate the fault. Is anyone aware of how this could be achieved? Thanks [/QUOTE]
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