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Broken Windows 10 Update Causes Reboot Loops For Some Users
An anonymous reader writes: The Guardian reports that some early adopters of Windows 10 are finding their computers stuck in a reboot loop after installing a particular update. KB3081424 is a cumulative update, packaging together a group of smaller ones for ease of installation. For some users, the update continually fails to finish installing before issuing a reboot command to the PC. "It downloads, reboot to install. Gets to 30% and reboots. Gets to 59% and reboots. Gets to 59% again and then states something went wrong so uninstalling the update. Wait a few minutes and reboot. Back to login screen," said Microsoft forum user BrettDM. "This happens without fail, every single time."
I have 10 Pro on my own work laptop, personal desktop, and set it up on two systems over the week after and installed this patch no issue. Small data set, but no problems for me. Two were upgrades, two were fresh installs.
Had this happen when installing. Probably the same issue - Turned out I had to update the BIOS so that the Intel CPU was trusted. Now everything is smoove.
This happened yesterday and was fixed within 24 hours. Good work, Slashdot.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
No update cycle is perfect. Problems happen. But being unable to refuse an update, or roll it back, etc., is a recipe for problems galore.
You can do all of those things, although the means are extremely non-obvious.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
That's like a movie summary of "contains frames that when viewed quickly give the illusion of motion". Of course a patch for Windows "fixes issues with Windows for some computers", but that's not a summary of what the patch does. "fixes XYZ problem with Windows ABC program when users perform a 123 action."