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• Microsoft acknowledges Surface Book 2 blue screen bug in Win10 1803 second monthly cumulative update

  Posted on December 5, 2018 at 07:22 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  

  Is there a German word for when a manufacturer’s flagship hardware product bluescreens after installing the latest update to its flagship operating system?

  Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Thx @b, @abbodi86, @PKCano.

  Windows Patches/Security Blue Screen, BSOD, KB 4467682, Surface Book 2

• Surface Book, Surface Pro 4 firmware updates throw 800f0203 error, blue screens

  Posted on April 20, 2016 at 11:01 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  The workaround doesn’t always work.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

  Windows Patches/Security 800f0203, Blue Screen, Dock, Firmware, Surface Book, Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro 4

• Windows customers – not Microsoft – find a fix to the botched KB 2982791 and KB 2970228 patches

  Posted on August 15, 2014 at 09:04 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  You have to delete a font cache.

  Microsoft STILL hasn’t acknowledged the problem, more than 60 hours after it first appeared.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Windows Patches/Security August 2014 Black Tuesday, Blue Screen, KB 2970228, KB 2982791

• Microsoft needs your help to nail the Windows 8.1 update 0xc1900101 Blue Screens

  Posted on October 31, 2013 at 23:32 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Two weeks in, and MS still hasn’t figured it out…

  InfoWorld Tech Watch

  Windows News Blue Screen, Windows 8.1 upgrade

• Microsoft pushes another botched automatic update

  Posted on March 4, 2013 at 22:46 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  More details on the KB 2670838 debacle.

  InfoWorld Tech Watch. [Link fixed. Sigh.]

  Windows Patches/Security Blue Screen, KB 2670838, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

• MS10-015/KB977165 causing blue screens

  Posted on February 12, 2010 at 10:06 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Toldja so.

  Microsoft confirms that “after installing the February security updates a limited number of users are experiencing issues restarting their computers”

  SANS Internet Storm Center identifies the problem as a Blue Screen.

  I’m hearing rumors that there’s much more to the story. Stay tuned. And for heaven’s sake, don’t install the February Black Tuesday patches, OK?

  UPDATE: Looks like the Blue Screen happens on systems that are infected with a specific rootkit or other type of malware. When MS10-015 is applied, the infected systems suddenly fall over and play dead. Good details on Brian Krebs’ site.

  Windows Patches/Security Blue Screen, KB977165, MS10-015