Win10 Professional x64 refuses to boot after the latest update.

[r3robbie]

Hiya,

 

I was wondering if I could get some assistance regarding an issue I'm having with Win10 and Windows Update.

Each and every time I install the latest security update for Meltdown/Spectre (KB4056892), my system becomes unable to progress past this screen. The progression wheel doesn't even show up, the whole system just hangs, and I end up just having to do a system restore.

 

SPECS:

* OS: Win10 Pro x64

* CPU: AMD Athon 64 X2 5600+

* GPU: GeForce GTX 570

* MOBO: Asus Crosshair I

* RAM: 4GB Crucial @ 800MHz

* System Locale is in Japanese.

 

SFC and chkdsk scans all come back clean. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

 

Thanks,

Will

[PorkishPig]

7 minutes ago, r3robbie said:

Hiya,

 

I was wondering if I could get some assistance regarding an issue I'm having with Win10 and Windows Update.

Each and every time I install the latest security update for Meltdown/Spectre (KB4056892), my system becomes unable to progress past this screen. The progression wheel doesn't even show up, the whole system just hangs, and I end up just having to do a system restore.

 

SPECS:

* OS: Win10 Pro x64

* CPU: AMD Athon 64 X2 5600+

* GPU: GeForce GTX 570

* MOBO: Asus Crosshair I

* RAM: 4GB Crucial @ 800MHz

* System Locale is in Japanese.

 

SFC and chkdsk scans all come back clean. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

 

Thanks,

Will

This seems to be a somewhat common problem with Athlon processors. I don't believe this issue has a fix yet. For now, I would suggest that you pause updates in the Advanced options menu of the Windows Update UI.

[warrenr]

Microsoft blocked this patch from distribution this morning.  You must've picked up the patch before they blocked it.

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073707/windows-os-security-update-block-for-some-amd-based-devices

 

[Zmax]

You may have to reinstall Windows to get rid of the patch.

 

You can try a restore point, But for me, restore point never worked well. 

 

They are working on a new patch. So they say

[r3robbie]

1 hour ago, Zmax said:

You may have to reinstall Windows to get rid of the patch.

 

You can try a restore point, But for me, restore point never worked well. 

 

They are working on a new patch. So they say

 

1 hour ago, warrenr said:

Microsoft blocked this patch from distribution this morning.  You must've picked up the patch before they blocked it.

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073707/windows-os-security-update-block-for-some-amd-based-devices

 

 

1 hour ago, Homeless Pineapple said:

This seems to be a somewhat common problem with Athlon processors. I don't believe this issue has a fix yet. For now, I would suggest that you pause updates in the Advanced options menu of the Windows Update UI.

 

Ahhh, okay. I'll just pause updates for now until the new patch rolls out, and hope that they've set overwrite parameters. Thank you!

Also, I can confirm that this doesn't impact the 970 chipset.