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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. Windows Updates broken in December by Train0987 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I haven't seen too much online but MS did something to break Windows Updates for many users sometime around Dec 3-5. I have one customer with a couple hundred PC's and Windows Update is still broken on about 70% of them. The only fixes I've seen involve setting the date back on the PC by about 6 months, running Updates again, let it fail, then change the date back to current. The problem with this fix (and the others I've seen) erases the Windows Updates history so it appears they've never been run (and nothing installed prior can be uninstalled)

  2. why no rollback by HermMunster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why does error 0x800f0845 mean rollback is impossible?

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  3. Re: Cuba [Re:The wonders of the free market] by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cuba is not a good example of "no free market" because they are not a democracy. In a socialistic democracy, you can vote for candidates who fix bad systems/products. In a dictatorial system, you can't.

    Political and economic systems are now different things. We have dictatorial capitalism and socialist democracies. Our political vocabulary was created when they were mostly related several decades ago, and it causes confusion.

    Note that a semi-socialistic system can create MORE competition by breaking up big companies into multiple smaller ones. I've never met a good oligopoly (except maybe when they are young companies who haven't learned to slack yet.)

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