So, is this why my machine bricked itself after last weeks update?
Microsoft pulls another dodgy patch
Another Patch Update Tuesday, another red face for Microsoft, which has again been forced to pull a patch to prevent nasty side-effects. Explained at TechNet, the patch that aimed to add “SHA-2 Hashing” to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 has instead raised some concerns among Redmond's customers. The company is therefore …
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Monday 20th October 2014 12:55 GMT Anthony 13
How do you ever know???? My WHS (Server 2008 R2) bricked itself too - I saw it was waiting for an update - BOOM - wouldn't boot the next day... oh crap. Coincidence? I don't know - I'm too incompetent to work it out - I guess it serves me right for keep putting off the backup of the OS drive...
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Monday 20th October 2014 08:59 GMT Zippy's Sausage Factory
My girlfriend's computer borked because of this. Blue screen loop. Nasty. In the end, tried to reinstall from my Win 8 Pro image, which is the only one we have (recovery disks? Only pirates want those, surely?). MS wanted to charge us 166€ just to get a licence key that would probably have borked again. So she's running kubuntu now.
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Monday 20th October 2014 09:19 GMT Andy Non
Ditto that.
My Windows 8.1 laptop got stuck a few months ago in a never ending attempt to run Windows update / failing to update loop; leaving the computer un-patchable. I ended up wiping the hard drive and installing Kubuntu. Can't say I miss Windows 8.1. and won't be going back to using any Microsoft products, despite being a DOS+Windows application developer for the last thirty odd years. I'm now looking into developing applications for Linux instead, having become more and more disillusioned and fed up with Microsoft over the years.
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Tuesday 21st October 2014 18:22 GMT wdmot
Re: Ditto that.
@Andy - I'd love to switch to Linux but I haven't found a flavour that actually works with my 2006 HP laptop. Some won't install (don't like the hard drive), some will install but then not boot (although I can get a non-graphical terminal), and others will install and boot but then lock up the machine (or perhaps go into a very high CPU usage so that the machine is unresponsive). Seems like a graphics driver issue but I don't know how to resolve it. The machine works fine with XP (came with media center edition) but I don't have install media and want to put a larger hard drive in...
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Monday 20th October 2014 09:25 GMT leexgx
windows 8 key is baked into the UEFI BIOS (unless you paid for windows 8 and installed it your self) you just need the right version that came with your laptop it self activates, if you install windows 8/8.1 and it asks for a Key after its installed you installed the incorrect version and there is a recovery built in any way just force it off 2-3 times until it gets you into the windows troubleshoot GUI
there are 2 versions 8 and 8.1 (some new laptops are still coming with windows 8 installed that can then be upgraded for free to 8.1 but you must use a windows 8 OEM install disk/USB not retail disk/USB)
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Monday 20th October 2014 12:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
Ever heard of a phased implementation?
Week 1 - select test machine from various depts. and types (laptop / desktop)
Week 2 - rest of PCs / laptops and some test servers - ones that are easy to replace in case of FUBAR
Week 3 - rest of background servers
Week 4 - Domain controllers - performed over 3 days to allow for extra FUBAR.
Not had any great problems since this was implemented.
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Monday 20th October 2014 13:34 GMT Steve Kerr
Borked my PC
Ran windows update, reboot "Windows cannot start", tried to recover, failed.
Reinstalled Win7, added patches, all 400 odd, reboot, failed.
Reinstalled Win7, added patches, all 400 odd, failed, recovered to pre-400 patches, reinstalled, failed, reinstalled 120 patches.
FFS - 2 days of my life wasted.
Now to find the license keys for the stuff that was there.
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Monday 20th October 2014 18:22 GMT Trevor_Pott
Re: Borked my PC
"Remember - Microsoft have NEVER released any product that works properly!"
Neither has anyone else. *shrug*
Everything requires patches. Microsoft make good - even great - software. They also make real stinkers. Windows itself is more the former than the latter.
Wake me when Wayland/Weston are baked, we have a FreeRDP server baked into the distro and someone has taken systemd, gnome 3 and unity out back and done the needful. Then we can really move beyond Windows.
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Monday 20th October 2014 14:46 GMT JeffyPoooh
"Failed to install"
I see this all the time. Usually one update per batch fails to install. Even with default settings of what to install. Next time through it either succeeds, or it decides it wasn't required in the first place. Silly.
This happens with fairly fresh-install machines. Not some old disease-ridden junk.
Perhaps I'm clicking it wrong.
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Monday 20th October 2014 18:24 GMT Trevor_Pott
Re: "Failed to install"
Track the KB numbers. 94% of the time the reason a patch fails to install is because some other patch in the group either superseded it or stepped on files this update round that the patch-that-won't-install needed to step on.
The other 5% of the time it's because something buggered your ACLs and you need to use subinacl to reset everything.
1% of the time is a goddamned mystery.
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