Wednesday, October 2nd 2024
Windows 11 KB5043145 Update Preview Causes BSOD and Bootloops, Microsoft Pulls it
Microsoft releases a monthly cumulative update to Windows every second Tuesday of a month, dubbed "patch Tuesday," however sometimes the company has the updates ready to go before that date, and puts them out as Update Previews. These are not "beta" versions of a software update, but contents of the upcoming patch Tuesday just being released ahead of its time, and as such it's offered even to regular users that aren't Insiders. One such update preview for the month of October 2024 is horribly broken.
Dubbed the Windows 11 Update Preview KB5043145, and released on September 26, this update is found by users to cause blue screens of death (BSODs), and send the system into "boot loops"—a condition where the OS fails to load, causing the machine to reboot over and over again, until you can boot with a recovery disc just to boot into your existing installation. The KB5043145 update preview has since been pulled, although it's still part of the Microsoft Update Catalog, a repository that holds all Windows Updates as standalone installers.
Source:
HotHardware
Dubbed the Windows 11 Update Preview KB5043145, and released on September 26, this update is found by users to cause blue screens of death (BSODs), and send the system into "boot loops"—a condition where the OS fails to load, causing the machine to reboot over and over again, until you can boot with a recovery disc just to boot into your existing installation. The KB5043145 update preview has since been pulled, although it's still part of the Microsoft Update Catalog, a repository that holds all Windows Updates as standalone installers.
30 Comments on Windows 11 KB5043145 Update Preview Causes BSOD and Bootloops, Microsoft Pulls it
The richest company in the world and one of the most incompetent. How is this even possible??
- Satya Nadella practicing MS Logic
The 4th of October 2024 has the 24H2 update? That is two days from now. Just, Why? Pre-patches for the big one perhaps? Anyway, I wouldn't do that, if something should go wrong, you don't know immediately which one would have been the cause of an issue.
I haven't booted Windows partition in months...
The lunacy resides in the fact that the old M$ coders that actually made the code are retired and new ones are monkeys and don't know the code stack from top bottom anymore, simple as that...
But as I stated before. Windows is not a priority for Microsoft anymore.
It will be interesting to see what the actual cause of the problem is.You do know that was Crowdstrike and not Microsoft, right?
To me, it does not matter what makes it behave this way, the result renders PC unusable.
Updated mine. No problems (yet), thankfully. :shadedshu:
I appreciate all Windows 11 Pro Betatesters who do not pause the Windows updates. Thank you very much.There are other operating systems which work more flawless. The obvious one and not the obvious one like FREEBSD, mostly any ANDROID Tablet and Smartphone to name a few.
My long term installation from 2006 was never such screwed up.
(I do not want to name it as people will get angry. Which I just use. I moved it from different mainboard several times. 2006 I had other operating systems also installed in triple boot. I ditched the other one after two years of testing.)I think the criticism on the Windows Operating system is valid.
Well maybe someone could list up the issues of Windows in Year 2023 or 2024. I think I read every 2-3 months an issue with Windows operating system. Than we could determine the quality of this operating system with the other twenty or more available operating systems. In regards of critical non functional updates. pcgameshardware.de has very often articles with windows issues afaik.
Second rule of Windows Update: Wait a week or two, if possible, for the dust to settle.
Every single week there is another post about Windows 11 like this.
Just install Windows 11 24H2, it's the best OS Microsoft has ever released by a wide margin. Stop installing this insider/beta crap.
www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11
We happy few wait until the second tuesday, a.k.a. "Microsoft's Patch Tuesday", which is the day MS releases zero days and non-preview patches. You can get a bad patch on a MPT but it is far rarer because a lot of sucke... ejem, people have usually been testing them for 2 weeks in the form of a "preview" update.
My experience with Androids on the other hand have been horrible. The devices are varied but lately the annoying ones are some strange set-top boxes - which had issues mostly on the firmware and driver side of things meaning you could not exactly run some other variant on them - and most recently Nvidia Shield TV where Android needs to be massaged in unintended ways to get it work in a way I'd like - and I gave up on some of my more outrageous wants.
well Microsoft thought (lol) “Great idea”, hold my beer, we can do that!… and guess what…
after sobering up, they fix it…