After installation of KB4056892 boot failure, after roll-back error 0x800f0845

Anonymous
2018-01-04T22:13:27+00:00

Hi,

I have older AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+, Asus MB, after installation of KB4056892 the system doesn't boot, it only shows the Windows logo without animation and nothing more. After several failed boots it do roll-back then it shows error 0x800f0845. Unfortunately, it seems it's not easy to disable the automatic updates without gpedit tweaks, so it tries installing and rolling-back the update over and over. The sfc /scannow shows no problem, in-place upgrade also doesn't seem to help. I can try full reinstall, but I doubt it will change anything. It seems like the update is binary incompatible with my old CPU. I understand that making the machine unbootable is the best protection from remote exploitation, but I would rather have the OS working. Especially if my CPU is not vulnerable to the Meltdown attack and the MS mitigation attempts for Spectre is more than questionable. I could find only some German and Italian people reporting the same issue (well the CPU is quite pre-historic and the KB update is very fresh), but no info / acknowledgment from the MS so far. I have Czech localization. Could anybody provide more information?

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-01-10T08:55:08+00:00

    Backup and restore points are important :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-10T08:43:27+00:00

    I am not sure whether you understand the problem correctly. AFAIK AMD CPU do not have firmware, but microcode. Motherboard has firmware i.e. the BIOS. I didn't update the latter for ages, because I have already the latest version. Taking into account that the Linux kernel which was patched according to the manufacturers hints boots OK on the machine, I don't know why I should be fed up with AMD. AMD didn't make my OS unbootable and didn't install the update without my consent. And didn't make me hard time rolling it back.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-10T07:41:12+00:00

    This screenshot is from Windows 7, not Windows 10.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-01-10T07:34:34+00:00

    Microcode? Can you elaborate?

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-01-10T04:33:59+00:00

    You should, rather, be fed up with AMD for not updating its firmware.

    Everybody else has.

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