[SOLVED] Persistent reboot after opening Photos app for the first time

stiligFox said:

I was able to fix this by disabling XMP and reducing memory speed from 1866mhz to 1333mhz... glad it works now!

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Can you kindly guide me through what you have done? I wish it works on my machine as well.

Thanks
CSW

This issue persisted in El Capitan as well. Has anyone tried using the latest beta BIOs for Z97MX Gaming 5? It supposedly includes more compatibility with RAM.

CyCLoBoT said:

This issue persisted in El Capitan as well. Has anyone tried using the latest beta BIOs for Z97MX Gaming 5? It supposedly includes more compatibility with RAM.

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F6 is the latest on gigabyte site and it was released last year.

csw said:

F6 is the latest on gigabyte site and it was released last year.

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Search for Gigabyte beta BIOS on Google. It's posted on Tweakdown forum. I would have tried it but I have already switched to another motherboard.

CyCLoBoT said:

Search for Gigabyte beta BIOS on Google. It's posted on Tweakdown forum. I would have tried it but I have already switched to another motherboard.

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Thanks.
When you replaced to H97M-PLUS, was the installation easy as Z97MX-Gaming 5?

csw said:

Thanks.
When you replaced to H97M-PLUS, was the installation easy as Z97MX-Gaming 5?

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Yes it was exactly the same. The only difference with the board is that it uses ALC 887 audio codec and it lacks overclocking features compared to Gaming 5 but I didn't mind as I never tweaked anything in the BIOS. I have not had any issues with the board whatsoever. Just recently, my computer was up for 28 days without a crash.The only reason I ended up restarting was because of the 10.12.1 update.

Sorry for the late reply guys. I just went into BIOS, Advanced Memory Configuration, XMP > Disabled.
In Clover I set XMP-Detection to "Off." This effectively changed the RAM frequency from 1866mhz to 1333mhz.

That solved my Photos related crashes. I'm now having issues related to the screensaver - I have it set as one screen saver but it will only load the Apple logo and computer name one; after waking it up from screensaver, there is a system wide lag and then Word will crash. No idea what to do about this...

I'm also running the F7c BIOS from Tweaktown but it did not help with the RAM/Photos crash.

Can confirm that on the UD5H-BK, 10.12.1 doesn't see any improvement. Hoping a new Bios might solve.

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.photoanalysisd.plist and you're running again

I've downloaded this and put the new .plist into place. Seems to have no effect sadly.

Wonder what I did wrong?

Rob