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Yeh well, I don’t consider the bios something that can be forced on me using that kind of excuse

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Deo, Cybertooth

They were blocked… since ages. In fact never got a driver or bios update… until this surprise.

In fact I’m the original owner of the workstation and the windows installation is still the one I got with the computer, various years ago. If things were not blocked, I would have got pushed on me 2.10 , .11 , .12  and all the other updates done all these years until .45 a couple of months ago

Now you see why I’m a bit livid ?

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Alex5723

Hello,

took me a short while to write ( let the updates resume the 29th ) due to being more than annoyed with what happened here. I’m on a Dell T7820 and purposefully kept the bios at version 2.8.0 for various reasons, mainly because I had no interest in the cpu security remediation for vulnerabilities that posed no issues to me (so wanted to retain 100% of the cpu computing power).

Well… MS pushed on me not just the monthly updates for windows ( win10 still, will let it upgrade to 11 in some months ), but forced a bios update straight to 2.45.0 , resulting in 5 flashes in a row (so 5 chances of something going wrong….)

This thing I just read may be of interest to the group in general

‎Dell Precision 7780 BTX boot issues after Windows 11 updates | DELL Technologies

Reported on the dell forum, the current win11 update caused mayem to a laptop at the lowest possible level ( bios ). I know a lot of data is missing , from the one that posted there…

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deuxbits

I purchased the laptop from ebay

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Alex5723

actually I got annoyed that the registry didn’t work, so I went with an update from iso ( just had to find the right language iso…. buying from ebay can result in some funny experience, like in this case i had to grab a german iso otherwise no update while keeping the installed programs and settings ).

Not sure if it’s using more cpu or ram at idle vs win10 ( is a 7300u ), but the only thing not working is a panasonic camera app, that doesn’t manage to open the webcam anymore ( skype does it anyway )

Interesting,

since we’re still at defcon 2, today I went on and used my wm ( on vmware ) as guinea pigs. The result wasn’t what i expected :

Win10 pro : ok

Win11 pro : ok

Windows server 2019 : ok

Win11 pro ( the ms eval image with the Studio dev tools ) : borked badly.  Hitting reboot > blue screen  irq no less than . Then it got stuck on trying to launch the recovery environment (Preparing automatic repair). I’m considering it a goner.

It was a vanilla win11 like the other pro, in theory ( I tested it other months too, without issues ), with nothing installed.

In this case i wonder why these 2 laptops were not offered it.

 

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Ah well… seems it got offered on “this” pc. and as expected failed… oh well, who cares… between the hassle of handling the partition with that unmovable object and having them fix it in some weeks (and in the meanwhile having windows redownload daily the kb ) I pick the lazy way out … let it redownload until fixed … or just hiding it

Did they pull KB5034441 ?

I used 2 laptops here as guinea pigs, both win10 , both pro. Both were not offered KB5034441

Hello,

so, to add myself to this thread, this

is my current situation. Disk 4 is the boot drive. The dell installation image created, a bit ago, that schema :
Recovery partition of 529mb ( 75mb free only) , then a 100mb fat32 partition, then a 16mb (other) partition, then the boot. Any tool would let me resize the boot , the 100mb and the recovery. but the 16mb (other) is marked as not resizable. I’m quite unsure how I could free 600mb from the boot and move it to the start of the ssd if those 16mb are an immovable and immutable object.

And no, no way I reinstall the system ( that works flawlessly ) for this.

I could maybe install the dell supportassist feature ( I avoided until now ) and let it maybe do its own magic at the start of the drive ( but somehow i guess it would create its partition at the end…. ?)

Oh yes, it’s fully supported by Dell still ( and supported under win11, even if I’m still on 10 ). It helps that it’s still part of the current workstation offering ( Precision Tower 7820 )

Delay, sorry.

Yes, seems somehow win10 decided to install also 2 intel packages alongside with the monthly patches, and the 2 packages look like to be exactly all the parts I specifically decided to not install from Dell to not have the ME/vpro exposed.

It took just 2 years to decide to do it on my back….

Hello,

seems this month update didn’t limit itself to add the new windows backup. I actually got

“Intel Management and Security Status”

added without my consent, before the backup app. I’m on win10 pro for workstations. Funny because i never installed the >250mb components from my oem ( dell ) to actually use the Management Engine

Maybe I shouldn’t ask in this thread but…

So, all this month updates went ok but I realized one thing. I’m on win10 and I think I’m not getting offered the option to move from 21H2 to 22H2 since the moment I got the “you are eligible for windows 11 22H2, click here do start downloading, or click here if you want to stay on win10 for now”.

I avoided clicking either of those 2 for a few months, but is my not clicking “stay on win10 for now” wants preventing the win10 22H2 upgrade from showing up?

Ok, fixed itself it seems.

Maybe changing the language caused this? Not that it got fully changed, I’ve a few things left in German here and there like the login screen (willcommen instead of welcome), the date in German (only on the login screen), and I guess  a few things left somewhere.