Microsoft whips out probe after Windows 11 users suffer the blue-screen blues

Microsoft is investigating reports of dreaded blue screens of death from users who installed a recent Windows 11 update. Some folks suggest it's a particular problem for machines equipped with Intel chips and MSI motherboards. The issue is linked to Windows 11's KB5029351 update released this week. While largely a set of …

[Nimrod86]

Possibly this is an Intel issue, because my AMD (B650M Mortar) machine had no issue with the update.

[Steve Jackson]

Horse crossing.

[captain veg]

undirected rambling

I just installed VirtualBox 7 and now my main Windows 10 instance won't start, instead just sitting there bleating "Preparing Automatic Repair".

I also have VMs containing Android, Haiku and a different Windows 10 installation. They all work just fine.

Bugger.

-A.

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Re: undirected rambling

"Preparing Automatic Dis-Repair"

FTFY - Have a beer (or several) while you wait for it's inevitable failure.

[captain veg]

Re: undirected rambling

You are, of course, correct.

On the off chance that someone else might find themselves in same predicament, and that a particularly clueless search engine had brought them here, I had better state that the problem was down to a change in VirtualBox. If you created the VM more than a certain amount of time ago (sorry, dunno how much) then the setting for the VM's "Paravirtualization Interface" parameter in System -> Acceleration has now to be "Legacy" rather than "Default".

-A.

[ecofeco]

As much I love to bash MS

Love me some MS bashing all day long, but this looks like a mfg BIOS issue.

Mfg bollocks IS still a thing these days.

[bombastic bob]

bleeding edge updates are highly overrated

what it says in the title

(is why I like 'stable' branches, and manual-only updates)

[gosand]

Probably not related...

Just spent 2 days with my daugher at university (via phone) because her laptop froze during an update (Win11) and then refused to boot. I walked her through doing image restores, etc. She finally took it to a local shop. I talked to the tech, and he said he has seen a lot of issues this week which was the first week of classes. He said the OS was corrupted and it's getting a re-install now. It's not an Intel (Ryzen 7) and probably isnt related to this story. She had been using the laptop over the past couple of months at home, so I am sure it's just some wild random coincidence. smh