

The OP has/had anti-virus software installed that can affect the speed of the SSD so that "slow drive" may be due to software issues. We need to see the complete EtreCheck report to see about the SSD. A 2014 computer means that your drive is 8 years old and is very likely failing as the warning you got stated.

When a drive is old it starts to have read/write problems that will cause it to crash.

I think one of the basic issues is the warning that your disk drive is failing.
#Macbook pro user guide 2014 manual#
I have 2 antivirus softwares installed (Avast & Malwarebytes) but I only use them for timely manual scanning since a while ago when I had an adware attack I would love suggestions from this community.įor a while, I thought I needed a bigger MacBook then I felt like what I’m doing can be handled by a laptop such as mine. I tried resetting VRAM, SafeBoot, and similar but it didn’t help. My laptop will just freeze, restart and give me the “your PC was restarted because of a problem” While I thought it might be the reason, I close most of the apps sometimes but the issue still happens randomly. Sometimes I open a lot of apps at the same time. I keep experiencing frequent crashing while I’m using the Mac for my activities such as coding, wordpress rendering, browsing, bluestacks, chrome dev tools, photoshop, WhatsApp Desktop and similar creativity apps.
#Macbook pro user guide 2014 update#
I have a MacBook Pro 2014, core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, installed BigSur 11.6 (Latest big sur update as of today).
