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Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre Patch Is Bricking Some AMD PCs (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the vulnerabilities-that-keep-giving dept.

Mark Wilson writes: As if the Meltdown and Spectre bug affecting millions of processors was not bad enough, the patches designed to mitigate the problems are introducing issues of their own. Perhaps the most well-known effect is a much-publicized performance hit, but some users are reporting that Microsoft's emergency patch is bricking their computers. We've already seen compatibility issues with some antivirus tools, and now some AMD users are reporting that the KB4056892 patch is rendering their computer unusable. A further issue -- error 0x800f0845 -- means that it is not possible to perform a rollback.

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  1. Score yet another for MS quality control. by QuietLagoon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft really seems to be de-emphasizing quality assurance in the Windows product. Makes me feel real good about the forced updates of Windows 10.

    1. Re:Score yet another for MS quality control. by greenwow · · Score: 5, Insightful

      After firing the vast majority of their QA, why would they expect anything different than a massive drop in quality? They knew this would happen, but decided to do it anyway.

    2. Re:Score yet another for MS quality control. by TheDarkMaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The new guys at Microsoft (the veterans who have created things like Windows NT have now retired), they have not yet understood that you can not make an operating system with the same techniques and procedures they use to create web pages.

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  2. How much did Intel pay M$ by banbeans · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How much did Intel pay M$ to brick AMD systems?
    *tightens tin foil hat*

  3. Re:AM2+ cpus are quite old even intel system from by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I currently have 4 AM2+ systems running at home and while they are old, they are more then capable for what I need them to do. They're all running Windows 7. So I'll have to look into this before allowing them to be updated.

    Processors are not like they were in the 80's and 90's. In the 1980's it was seriously expensive to update, so I didn't do so as often as I did in the 1990's. I probably updated my systems every 2 to 3 years back then. But I don't' see the need to do so anymore. Unless you are a serious gamer, or do a lot of video editing/transcoding there's no need. It's been a while since I played any games, but the Phenom 2 1100T with an NVidia 730 had enough power to keep all of the settings pretty high and no issues with frame rate. Why should people be forced to send perfectly usable hardware to a landfill simply because it's not the latest shiny thing on the market?

  4. Not bricking by samwichse · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The OS has to be reinstalled.

    How is that bricking?

  5. Re:AM2+ cpus are quite old even intel system from by msauve · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "No one at Microsoft intentionally ruined any machines, "

    If you think that's true, explain Windows 10.

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