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Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users

Posted by kdawson on from the lather-rinse-repeat dept.

Echostorm writes with word that Windows Vista SP1, which began rolling out via Automatic Update, has left some users' machines unbootable. The update loops forever on "Configuring updates: Stage 3 of 3 — 0% complete. Do not turn off your computer." "Shutting down"... restart and loop. Echostorm notes having found traces of what sounds like the same bug in early beta releases of SP1. It's unclear how many users are affected. So far there is no word on a fix from Microsoft.

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  1. That's odd by calebt3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If I don't do anything it restarts into Ubuntu. Gotta love GRUB.

  2. Re:Win a T-Shirt! by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Q: Vista SP1 gets locks up the machines after update.

    A: [x] Fiction (wins a T-Shirt)
            [ ] Fact (truth but no T-Shirt to you bad boy.)

    What? That issue looks like fact. Sure the machines are not technically locking up and are simply rebooting for ever, but their user is locked out of getting back to work.

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    Jumpstart the tartan drive.
  3. Sounds like a fix by zakeria · · Score: 0, Redundant

    to me, removing vista from a users computer is the best thing Microsoft has offered thus far!!!

  4. Re:You can't make this stuff up. by Wowsers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, they don't beta test, YOU do ;-).

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    Take Nobody's Word For It.
  5. Re:Regression testing, people by empaler · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Congratulations! You've got a T-shirt coming your way, and you're in the drawing for a $15'000 wide screen TV!*

    *: Only applies if you live in AU and really, really believe.