Sadly nowadays Updates should only be applied right away for test purpouse

the days where  you could have your system (literally) up to date are gone by, You have to wait weeks to make sure the update is safe for you or your PC is doomed.

In resume: NEVER BLINDLY update anything, always make sure is safe.

so far woody, I have not encountered the BSOD problem with KB4490481 on my machine running win10 v1809

Installed KB4490481 yesterday with no apparent problems. My WinX Pro system was slow to boot this morning, but it did boot without a BSOD. Praise Gaia!

I installed KB 4490481 on my AMD desktop yesterday with no problems.

This morning i installed it on my daughters Intel laptop also with no problems.

BSOD after KB 4490481 happened to me last night on a Shuttle H67 board with i7-3770 and GeForce GTX 750 Ti Graphics Card video card    Only recourse was to go back to a restore point after two BSODs and reboots.  I called into MS tech support and let them remote into my system to see what was up.  End result was to turn off automatic updates for the short term.   Seemed like the tech was aware of issue surrounding this update.

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If 1809 updates can cause BSOD, why are we still on DEFCON 4?  I am going to hold back on updating.

Computerworld article:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3387141/reliable-reports-of-blue-screens-after-installing-this-weeks-win10-1809-patch-kb-4490481.html

Same BSOD intel nuc with intel 5000 graphics

EP wrote:

so far woody, I have not encountered the BSOD problem with KB4490481 on my machine running win10 v1809

Me too. No BSOD after upgrading 1803 to 1809 on Apr. 3.

had 2 machine bricked.

#1 AMD 2700. Fixed with a roll back of 3 days.

#2 Intel 2500. Totally borked. Neither wired or wirelss keyboard / mouse work on the recovery screen. Yes I have backups, Catch 22 working well here. Currently downloading Windows 10 install media on a usb to do a recover this way. Microsoft live chat is now backed up as well. Bet by Friday pm the MS will have pulled KB4490481

Gerry

Is the BSOD occurring during the update process or is the system booting to BSOD/running unstably after the update has completed?

Microsoft has added to the KB article:

If you enable per font end-user-defined characters (EUDC), the system will stop working and a blue screen will appear at startup. This is not a common setting in non-Asian regions.

Seems too obscure to be the main cause though

Wasn’t their a improvement in Win 10 where if Windows experienced a issue with a update such as BSOD that the update would be uninstalled?

KB 4490481
BSOD also on 4 very different computers !!!! Update went smoothly until 30%, when rebooting, BSOD with system exception error, stop code.

The only common point between these 4 computers : a PCIe card Soundblaster Audigy FX.

Delayed the automatic updates to 35 days, but when checking it manually still give me this deadly update, comm’on Microsoft, imagine the people without any reliable backups, or unable to manage rollbacks, they have no longer any computer for the time being !!!

Two of my PC’s crash with System Service Exception after installing KB4490481 on Windows 10 x64 1809. A Dell laptop with Intel graphics 520 and an Intel NUC with intel HD5000 graphics.
I’m suspecting an issue with the update and intel graphics drivers. Just a gut feeling.
Fortunately in both cases a system restore fixes the issue.

Here’s what happened to me:

Windows 10 Home KB4490481 boots into blue screen Recovery.

Clean install of Windows 10 from usb, then update to 17763.404 with no problems.

Install Windows Media Center 8.8.2 for Windows 10

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/10/08/windows-media-center-for-windows-10/

Boots into blue screen Recovery.

So, for me problem was Windows Media Center 8.8.2

Restore to 17763.379 from system image backup.

https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/discussion-patch-wmc-to-run-on-windows-10-final-possible-alternatives.61061/page-456#post-1514018

Removing old media center fonts fixed the BSOD on my two PCs. Thanks to max1 on My Digital Life.

A lesser skilled anonymous asks, what level of conflict or malicious intent does this indicate about the identified font?

I do not know if this was a Microsoft provided font that came with Media Center, or was added later, or if it came from content other than Microsoft. I have learned that fonts are potential paths for malware because of the deep permissions allowed. But I do not know how correct or current that information is, as antivirus and cleaners have developed.

Also, not all conflicts are malicious. Some parts just don’t work well together. Is there enough information available to say this is only accidental, not a threat that has lingered from old content?