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Windows Update: Blue Screen?

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epicdoom
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States489 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-27 18:09:44
August 27 2009 17:39 GMT
#1
So I wake up this morning to go online and check out my favorite site of course. When I see my computer that I had shut down was cycling through restarts. wtf I ask myself. Ah and when my computer finally loaded, it t'was a blue screen. So I go into safe mode run system recovery and I'm back to normal easy...too easy. I go online and apparently my friend is having the same problem. He mentions that his whole building at Berkley is having major issues after installing the latest Vista Update. SO BE WEARY MY FELLOW TL-ERS (I'm running Vista Home) of the latest updates from Microsoft. I'll keep this updated as I get more information

Edit: So..if you're having the same problem and/or fear this happening to you I recommend turning off automatic update for a while until more information is out to what's up.

Control Panel > Classic View > Windows Update > Change Setting > Check for Updates but let me chose to Install hem/download Them

Edit2: Problem seems to be with JUST x64 bit machines
update name: KB973879



Scorch
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Austria3371 Posts
August 27 2009 17:46 GMT
#2
One more reason to go for XP or Windows 7.
Kletus
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada580 Posts
August 27 2009 17:49 GMT
#3
Windows automatic update is the first thing I turned off when I got my vista laptop. It's not like anyone makes viruses for vista anyways since no one uses it ;D.
Your resistance only serves to make my carapace harder.
jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6641 Posts
August 27 2009 17:49 GMT
#4
Fuck windows update and it's forced restarting of computers, seriously.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions | aka Probert[PaiN] @ iccup / godlikeparagon @ twitch | my BW stream: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/jello_biafra
HomieZ
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
45 Posts
August 27 2009 17:50 GMT
#5
On August 28 2009 02:49 Kletus wrote:
Windows automatic update is the first thing I turned off when I got my vista laptop. It's not like anyone makes viruses for vista anyways since no one uses it ;D.


you shouldn't use vista in the first place... and people want you to think like that and use that against you.
jhNz
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany2762 Posts
August 27 2009 17:52 GMT
#6
ask this guy:
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=100677
http://twitter.com/jhNz
Pufftrees
Profile Joined March 2009
2449 Posts
August 27 2009 17:52 GMT
#7
I had the same issue and repeatedly had to restore to a previous date. Then eventually it just fixed itself... but still fails from time to time.

It is very very lame.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
August 27 2009 18:03 GMT
#8
On August 28 2009 02:49 jello_biafra wrote:
Fuck windows update and it's forced restarting of computers, seriously.



Don't you love it when your playing on iccup about to get to the next rank cause your owning this guy and bamn........
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
August 27 2009 18:04 GMT
#9
Hmmm. So I had this problem where my computer kept going to the blue screen of death and it was running Vista..

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!
b3h47pte
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States1317 Posts
August 27 2009 18:05 GMT
#10
vista is vista.
not our problem you didn't get the RC release of Windows 7 for free
Kletus
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada580 Posts
August 27 2009 18:06 GMT
#11
On August 28 2009 02:50 HomieZ wrote:
you shouldn't use vista in the first place... and people want you to think like that and use that against you.


Eh, I've had this laptop for 2 years and so far it's running smooth. I think if one depends on Windows Update services(whether XP, Vista, Win7, etc) for protection, that person might be in for a world of hurt.

Also, Vista works fine for me. I did some research and messed with the registry a bit, took out some processes I didn't need and now it doesn't guzzle down RAM.
Your resistance only serves to make my carapace harder.
epicdoom
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States489 Posts
August 27 2009 18:07 GMT
#12
On August 28 2009 03:04 cgrinker wrote:
Hmmm. So I had this problem where my computer kept going to the blue screen of death and it was running Vista..

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!


hahaa just gotta suck it up for a couple more months until 7 comes out...
Unless this was part of their grand scheme make people hate Vista so they're most inclined to get 7 when it comes out. hmm...It wouldn't be that far off Microsoft to do that...
RaGe
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Belgium9950 Posts
August 27 2009 19:00 GMT
#13
On August 28 2009 03:03 StorrZerg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 28 2009 02:49 jello_biafra wrote:
Fuck windows update and it's forced restarting of computers, seriously.



Don't you love it when your playing on iccup about to get to the next rank cause your owning this guy and bamn........

god I HATE THAT
reuigbregkerognergen

WHY WOULD THEY NOT INCLUDE A POSTPONING OPTION FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
Moderatorsometimes I get intimidated by the size of my right testicle
professorjoak
Profile Joined July 2008
318 Posts
August 27 2009 19:18 GMT
#14
Not just you. If this has happened to anybody else, here's instructions to fix:

http://www.techerator.com/2009/08/fix-windows-vista-64-bit-gets-blue-screen-after-windows-updates/



Official Microsoft hotfix page (says essentially the same thing as above link but without pictures):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/KB973879

Basically, you boot into safe mode and remove the update KB973879.
"The different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision." --Lewis Carroll
mikeymoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada7170 Posts
August 27 2009 19:26 GMT
#15
I have gotten this for every update since February =[
And this.
On August 28 2009 04:00 RaGe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 28 2009 03:03 StorrZerg wrote:
On August 28 2009 02:49 jello_biafra wrote:
Fuck windows update and it's forced restarting of computers, seriously.



Don't you love it when your playing on iccup about to get to the next rank cause your owning this guy and bamn........

god I HATE THAT
reuigbregkerognergen

WHY WOULD THEY NOT INCLUDE A POSTPONING OPTION FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

I've definitely left important stuff on my computer to wake up and have it lagging on that startup screen. wtf........
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Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
August 27 2009 19:38 GMT
#16
On August 28 2009 04:00 RaGe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 28 2009 03:03 StorrZerg wrote:
On August 28 2009 02:49 jello_biafra wrote:
Fuck windows update and it's forced restarting of computers, seriously.



Don't you love it when your playing on iccup about to get to the next rank cause your owning this guy and bamn........

god I HATE THAT
reuigbregkerognergen

WHY WOULD THEY NOT INCLUDE A POSTPONING OPTION FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST


My max time on vista is 4 hours time to put it off I think, but that's almost worse because then you forget about it.

Id rather just be able to turn it off or be fortunate enough to do it manually.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Oh goodness me, FOX tv where do you get your sight? Can't you keep track, the puck is black. That's why the ice is white.
spinesheath
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany8679 Posts
August 27 2009 21:47 GMT
#17
I have Vista because it came with my Laptop. The only times I had problems with it was after updating Vista itself. Somehow MS managed to make the updater the worst part of the OS. It sometimes launched a Bluescreen on me after reboot, but when I selected "start normally" it worked all fine. Really just weird.

Oh and in the very first week Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer!) not died on me. It did recover by itself though.
If you have a good reason to disagree with the above, please tell me. Thank you.
coltrane
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Chile988 Posts
August 27 2009 22:00 GMT
#18
all the evidence tells me once and again that microsoft is a bitch,


How long is vista working now? 3 years? How many people bought it? how many will have to buy win7 cause vista sucks just like win ME before xp?
Jävla skit
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51595 Posts
August 27 2009 23:10 GMT
#19
My laptop came with Vista but I immediately (I MEAN IMMEDIATELY) installed Windows 7 on it.
Thank god I haven't been forced with Vista for more than ten minutes.
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Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
August 28 2009 00:26 GMT
#20
Am I lucky in that in my two years of running Vista, I have never gotten a blue screen?

(Did have this temporary crash once that lasted like a couple days but fixed itself once. Meh.)
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