Windows August update plays Blue Screen bingo – and MSI boards got the winning ticket There's good news for those suffering from a dreaded UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR Blue Screen Of Death screen following the installation of August's Windows update. The error condition was experienced by some users following the installation of either the KB5029351 and KB5029332 Windows 11 updates or the KB5029331 Windows 10 update, …
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This case is not too different from when Linux was bricking Samsung laptops.
Why would this case be any different when a rare CPU problem only affects select MSI boards?
Both can, so you run double the risk using Redmond's products.
""You've got to ask yourself one question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?"
Apparently the problem was the board was reporting the wriog info for the CPU, something every other board was doing right.
The issue is not Microsoft's not Intel's, it is MSI's and they fixed it.
Microsoft automatically rolled back the patch once it blue screened.
But of course, y'all gotta make a big deal outta nothing!
And MSI is far from perfect, just read their forums to see how many issues their customer have. But be careful you don't complain about them, because they will ban you!
So is Micro~1 tightening the CPU requirements for W10 now? Soon my PC won't be able to boot the OS it was issued with*. Time to throw out my perfectly working kit and replace it with new stuff, I suppose. Someone has to pay to have those barnacles removed from the hulls of the multi-million-$$$ yachts belonging to the board members of our seafaring tech overlords.
*Fear not (for I am with you): Ubuntu is available on another partition.
When I got my last PC I paid extra for Windows Professional rather than Windows Home, the only reason being that the Pro version makes it relatively easy to stop Windows updates. I occasionally find myself dwelling on the fact that I paid extra money for a bunch of other Windows Pro features that I have no use for. Then an incident like this reminds me that it was money well spent.
That said, I still resent that I had to pay to get around the default MS model that a software update I never asked for can break a PC that I rely on and paid lots of money for.
Let's face it, we are stuck with windows, there's nothing else to use, apple is just as bad as mocroshaft and lynx just can't cut it, so we are fucked!
Come on code monkeys, write an operating system that's lite, has no bloat, doesn't spy on us, and just works.
What you can't?
Then welcome Skynet,
humanity gets what she deserves.
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