Just came back from the UK and had issues the whole time. Unfortunately I tried an experiment with the Satechi 165W GAN power supply while using standard UK converters (two different ones). System Report showed it supplying 100W with nothing else plugged in. Ran fine for a few hours when I first got there, but then started to crash/freeze randomly (not plugged into any external displays). Didn't have my Apple Power supply with me, unfortunately. Tried a UK Dell USB-C (90W) power adapter the next day and that worked for a bit, but the issues started to return. Parallels would trigger the issues the quickest (probably due to power draw). Would randomly come to black screen sometimes where it wouldn't unlock after sleeping for a bit. Not being plugged in seemed to help, but Parallels drops to "Travel Mode", so less strain.
Uninstalled AV/VPN that I require for work and didn't seem to be related. Updated to Parallels 18 (also completely uninstalled/reinstalled) and updated to the latest Monterey just released, but didn't help. Did all the diagnostics check, resets, etc. After the Monterey update I tried running Disk Utility for First Aid and had a couple of different error messages where it wouldn't complete (lots of times) in Recovery mode.
Just got back to the US and docked into my Caldigit TS3+ with dual displays. Everything seems to be back to normal. Disk Utility completes fine again. Parallels VM fine again, etc. Was about to wipe/reinstall, but now it doesn't seem necessary.
Anyone else have any similar issues internationally traveling? Wondering if it was some kind of grounding issue or some other power related issue. Same issues from two different locations (work/hotel) within the same area. Same MacBook Pro has been out to Europe, though was using the Apple adapter at the time. Maybe the Apple adapter / Caldigit power is just better? You would expect it to be a hardware issue with what was happening.
Uninstalled AV/VPN that I require for work and didn't seem to be related. Updated to Parallels 18 (also completely uninstalled/reinstalled) and updated to the latest Monterey just released, but didn't help. Did all the diagnostics check, resets, etc. After the Monterey update I tried running Disk Utility for First Aid and had a couple of different error messages where it wouldn't complete (lots of times) in Recovery mode.
Just got back to the US and docked into my Caldigit TS3+ with dual displays. Everything seems to be back to normal. Disk Utility completes fine again. Parallels VM fine again, etc. Was about to wipe/reinstall, but now it doesn't seem necessary.
Anyone else have any similar issues internationally traveling? Wondering if it was some kind of grounding issue or some other power related issue. Same issues from two different locations (work/hotel) within the same area. Same MacBook Pro has been out to Europe, though was using the Apple adapter at the time. Maybe the Apple adapter / Caldigit power is just better? You would expect it to be a hardware issue with what was happening.