**WINDOWS UPDATE WARNING**

[HannibalX]

So far I have SIX machines that after installing the updates from MS that came out this week that will not boot. They are in a boot loop.

Three systems are part of a corporate network.

Two more systems are part of a completely different corporate network.

The last machine is my personal machine.

I have experienced failures on two machines which I scratch loaded today. They have zero days on the OS, literally from install to updates to failure.

So far I have not been able to find a solution for the loop.

 

[Oyeve]

Are these affected machines from am image? If so, is it the same image?

 

[Imyourzero]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
So far I have SIX machines that after installing the updates from MS that came out this week that will not boot. They are in a boot loop.

So far I have not been able to find a solution for the loop.

This may seem stupidly obvious, but what about hitting F8 before Windows starts to load and rolling back to the "Last Known Good Configuration?" Assuming you haven't tried it, that should restore the system to the pre-update state.

I'm just suggesting that because I had to use it on a couple of Dells that were stuck in a boot loop (not due to Windows updates, though).

 

[GreenGhost]

I had a similar problem, but because I used F8 to boot from another drive soon after, I thought I had screwed up. No problems after I selected the correct HD.

 

[Brian48]

Have updated all of my computers at home and at work. Haven't encountered a problem yet.

 

[Zenoth]

I have updated mine with those new updates and I haven't encountered a single issue since then.

Maybe that those six machines are all un-stable for various reasons other than MS's updates.

 

[Nocturnal]

I've updated several machines with the most recent patches and none are experiencing what you mentioned.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I've got <counts> around 6000 systems in Active Directory that say you're wrong.

- M4H

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
I've got <counts> around 6000 systems in Active Directory that say you're wrong.

- M4H

I have 11,000 machines in my AD. What does my e-penis have to do with this?

Friendly warning that?s all.

I specifically stated information about the machines to the effect that they are not similar machines - meaning not a coincidence. If you haven't had problems, great! MS has acknowledged to me over the phone that they know about the issue.

 

[Moose1309]

IME corporations with >5000 desktops tend to have more than one Windows admin. Are you sure you guys aren't 1 of like 20 lan admins?

anyways pale, I think 6 out of 11,000 sounds like good odds for a known (admittedly very bad) issue. Have you heard whether it affect any of the server updates, I get to update Exchange server this weekend

 

[HannibalX]

We lost a cluster of Exchange servers today due to this. We thought it was the San unit at first.

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: Moose1309
IME corporations with >5000 desktops tend to have more than one Windows admin. Are you sure you guys aren't 1 of like 20 lan admins?

anyways pale, I think 6 out of 11,000 sounds like good odds for a known (admittedly very bad) issue. Have you heard whether it affect any of the server updates, I get to update Exchange server this weekend

We actually have a team of people who do patching throughout the enterprise, thats all they do it make sure all our machines are patched for the OS and all our applications.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Since when do people patch automatically from M$? Especially in a corporate environment.... IT needs to okay platches before they go through..

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Since when do people patch automatically from M$? Especially in a corporate environment.... IT needs to okay platches before they go through..

Yup - thats why we DIDN'T patch and my test machines and servers died. The people who patched our Exchange servers are part of a different division - which is run by morons.

 

[SilentRunning]

See greyeyezz post in this thread

Appears windows update has issues with identifying the hardware.

 

[thescreensavers]

this is why I never update

 

[SuperNaruto]

sweet... thats why i have a beta group running on vms and clone machines before releasing to the desktop team... ill give it a shot and see if its affecting my beta group...

 

[imported_browsing]

Happened to me, thought it was my config. had to f8. Any suggestions on ways to make sure I don't get screwed when I turn this thing off again? Do I need to do a backup, revert a setting (windows restore is disabled), or save anything to a cd?

 

[Captante]

The two PC's I run on a daily basis both had all updates with no trouble at all, as did both my kids PC's however my wifes (figures, huh? ) PC had major problems when I updated it Weds night. It didn't fail to boot or anything, but it did have an issue caused by an optional HP driver for her Laserjet 1012 printer she uses for work.. she also has an HP A516 photo printer hooked up to the same PC & after the update was applied it became the only printer on the system.. the LJ1012 was disabled & couldn't be made to work by anything short of removing every scrap of HP software from her computer, manually editing the registry & re-installing both printers from the original driver CD's.

 

[mechBgon]

IMO, a problem rate of 6 failures out of ~11,000 systems is not a sufficient reason to advise people en masse not to install their Critical security updates.

 

[Lord Evermore]

At least not without figuring out which update caused the problem and warning against that one.

 

[Unkno]

I think this is more of an isolated error...I just updated my pc with the new patches and everything works fine.

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
At least not without figuring out which update caused the problem and warning against that one.

If anyone has an HP LJ-1012 (or similar) & any model HP photo printer or inkjet installed on the same system, I strongly suggest that you don't install any print-driver updates, either from Windows update or from HP directly.

 

[corkyg]

I have two desktops and a laptop. All were auto-updated this week, and there are no problems. There are two HP printers in the loop - no problems there.

I don't recall any printer driver updates in the package. All printers work perfectly - so there really is no reason to update them. ???

 

[MustISO]

All my home PC's and servers at work are fine. I did several clustered servers as well. No issues for me.