Apple has found that some of its older 2015 to 2017 15 inch MacBook Pro models might have batteries that could overheat and pose a fire risk.
You can check to see if your Mac Book is affected by visiting the Apple MacBook Battery recall site below:
https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall
Follow @aid_in_itHaving experienced a number of intermittent failures related to 0xE000FED1 we looked into increasing the retires and timeouts and found that the following values resolved the issue.
Browse to or create the following registry structure HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symantec\Backup Exec For Windows\Backup Exec\Engine\Besc
Under Besc create the following DWORD values:
Create a 32bit DWORD with name “UseSnapshotEngineRetry” and value (decimal) 1
Create a 32bit DWORD with name “SnapshotEngineRetries” and value (decimal) 5
Create a 32bit DWORD with name “SnapshotEngineWaitTime” and value (decimal) 360000 (that is 6 minutes in milliseconds)
You can find further information on the registry settings in this Veritas article:
https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100015593.html
Follow @aid_in_itI recently got this message when trying to update the BIOS on a HP Elite 8300 Small Form Factor PC. I knew that the download was safe and needed to get the BIOS updated. I worked around this block by launching a command prompt as Administrator, I then typed in the full path of the exe into the command prompt to launch it and this bypassed the block.
Having recently upgraded my system I kept finding that my computer would unexpectedly restart, games would crash out and after playing almost any game for 15-30 minutes I would get a Red Screen along with buzzing and then the computer would restart.
As with any issue the route cause and resolution might be different for you but I found that disabling XMP (Extreme Memory Profiles) completely resolved my issues. XMP clocks upthe memory in your system, sometimes above what the manufacturer recommend so this would be classed as overclocking.
Other troubleshooting steps that you could perform if this does not resolve your issue
Check to see if any other components in your system are overclocked (CPU, GPU or Memory).
Check your system and component temperatures and ensure that all fans are running correctly.
Test your Hard Disk Drive using manufacturers or third party diagnostics software.
Test your Memory using manufacturers or third party diagnostics software.
Update the system BIOS
Update drivers (especially Chipset and GPU)
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