Windows 11 KB5043145 Update Preview Causes BSOD and Bootloops, Microsoft Pulls it

btarunr · 2024-10-02T09:39:14+0100

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.

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R0H1T · 2024-10-02T09:41:20+0100

No problems here

Prima.Vera · 2024-10-02T09:43:55+0100

Why the hell do they have the Windows Insider Program, early access releases and beta testers?? Why??
The richest company in the world and one of the most incompetent. How is this even possible??

Vayra86 · 2024-10-02T09:46:21+0100

Prima.Vera said:
Why the hell do they have the Windows Insider Program, early access releases and beta testers?? Why??
The richest company in the world and one of the most incompetent. How is this even possible??

"But but Windows is so complicated! We keep adding new bullshit features to it and it just won't get less complicated! We even tried to include AI and that just backfired so hard, what's going on? Has the world gone crazy? Windows is the best OS, right? Right?"

- Satya Nadella practicing MS Logic

Legacy-ZA · 2024-10-02T10:09:27+0100

I updated mine, computer still works fine... for now...

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.

Ferrum Master · 2024-10-02T10:11:48+0100

Glad I don't use that shit at home anymore.

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.

LittleBro · 2024-10-02T10:11:54+0100

Imagine this in official update distribution channel. Another airport disaster coming in 3, 2, 1 ...

londiste · 2024-10-02T10:37:13+0100

Prima.Vera said:
Why the hell do they have the Windows Insider Program, early access releases and beta testers?? Why??
The richest company in the world and one of the most incompetent. How is this even possible??

Hardware and software environment running Windows is incredibly diverse. Some problems will still get through. This update has been available as an optional early-access for a while and the extent of bluescreen problem seems to have not been found earlier or ended up being more prevalent.

It will be interesting to see what the actual cause of the problem is.

LittleBro said:
Imagine this in official update distribution channel. Another airport disaster coming in 3, 2, 1 ...

You do know that was Crowdstrike and not Microsoft, right?

Broken Processor · 2024-10-02T10:41:36+0100

Thank you for my morning chuckle Microsoft see you next month.

LittleBro · 2024-10-02T10:47:26+0100

londiste said:
You do know that was Crowdstrike and not Microsoft, right?

Sure, but the result of the update was the same - PC stuck at booting loop.
To me, it does not matter what makes it behave this way, the result renders PC unusable.

3DVCash · 2024-10-02T10:58:17+0100

Dammit...

Updated mine. No problems (yet), thankfully. :shadedshu:

FoulOnWhite · 2024-10-02T11:08:06+0100

I just got cumulative update preview 5043178 so maybe they revised the other one.

_roman_ · 2024-10-02T11:49:30+0100

I pause the updates always with 5 weeks and set the internet to metered connection for my RGB gaming only Windows 11 Pro. Some Websites have download sites with the monthly Windows 11 / 10 update package which I apply to my computer.

I appreciate all Windows 11 Pro Betatesters who do not pause the Windows updates. Thank you very much.

londiste said:
Hardware and software environment running Windows is incredibly diverse. Some problems will still get through.

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.

NoneRain · 2024-10-02T12:03:43+0100

Prima.Vera said:
Why the hell do they have the Windows Insider Program, early access releases and beta testers?? Why??
The richest company in the world and one of the most incompetent. How is this even possible??

MS has ridiculous QA, but in this case, it's a PREVIEW release, meaning it is meant to be tested before normal availability.

azrael · 2024-10-02T12:13:04+0100

First rule of Windows Update: NEVER manually check for updates! That designates you as a "seeker" in Microsoft's view and you get pushed all the barely beta-level crap.

Second rule of Windows Update: Wait a week or two, if possible, for the dust to settle.

Ed_1 · 2024-10-02T12:13:27+0100

Here is what seems to happen, the update had issues and MS pulled it early (around 9/26-27, only 1 day up), then around 10/1 it is available again in WU. so MS must of fixed it.

TheDeeGee · 2024-10-02T12:33:03+0100

And this is why i'm still on Windows 10.

Every single week there is another post about Windows 11 like this.

phints · 2024-10-02T12:45:42+0100

This constant clickbate about Windows 11 is just so tiring. It makes me not even want to read these tech pages anymore along with the comment circlejerk being even worse.

Just install Windows 11 24H2, it's the best OS Microsoft has ever released by a wide margin. Stop installing this insider/beta crap.

Download Windows 11

Gatt · 2024-10-02T12:48:08+0100

Weird, I have KB5043166 as last update and no BSOD so far, excluding those due to Nvidia drivers that is ...

AGlezB · 2024-10-02T12:51:12+0100

Prima.Vera said:
Why the hell do they have the Windows Insider Program, early access releases and beta testers?? Why??
The richest company in the world and one of the most incompetent. How is this even possible??

The beta testers are the people unknowingly installing "preview" updates which is what usually happens in the 3rd-4th week of the month.
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.

londiste · 2024-10-02T12:51:23+0100

_roman_ said:
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.

My Windows install was originally installed in I think 2011 as Windows 7. Would be older - from 2006 or 2007 - if I had not been playing around with RAIDed SSDs back then - at that time Windows 7 install did not mesh well with storage driver changes.

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.

LittleBro · 2024-10-02T12:52:52+0100

phints said:
This constant clickbate about Windows 11 is just so tiring. It makes me not even want to read these tech pages anymore along with the comment circlejerk being even worse.

Just install Windows 11 24H2, it's the best OS Microsoft has ever released by a wide margin. Stop installing this insider/beta crap.

Download Windows 11

Event Horizon · 2024-10-02T14:14:53+0100

Too many different unrelated changes bundled into one update.

Vayra86 · 2024-10-02T14:35:28+0100

Its times like these that I hug my LTSC version even more

NoneRain · 2024-10-02T15:03:53+0100

Vayra86 said:
Its times like these that I hug my LTSC version even more

It's a preview, made to test and check if something breaks. It doesn't affect end-users.

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Windows 11 KB5043145 Update Preview Causes BSOD and Bootloops, Microsoft Pulls it

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