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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1644211" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>This is almost always a hardware problem.  If it's restarting from Safe Mode that's a good indication of a hardware fault.  It appears that you checked the SSD and even replaced it, so I suppose we can eliminate that.  You could have bad memory (soldered in) but you say Apple said the machine was OK.  We have to assume they checked the memory.  That leaves the GPU or the logic board.  Since the GPU is an Intel HD 4000 and it's integrated with the logic board CPU and chipset, there's little chance that it's bad.  That leaves the logic board.  Could be a bad power supply or if Apple didn't do a good job of checking the machine out, you could still have bad memory.  Both a failing power supply or bad memory will cause restarts.</p></blockquote><p></p>