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
    2018-01-09T05:52:06+00:00

    Official Microsoft response about the issue: https://support.microsoft.com/help/4073707/

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-09T05:12:56+00:00

    wildrex

    Interesting as this is a much newer CPU than the majority "Bricked" devices.

    If I might ask, what Motherboard (s) are you using?

    Does the lock occur on the Windows Logo screen with no animation.

    If you get by the windows Logo screen, how far do you get and what next action are you not able to take?

    How does it recover?

    This "fix" may directly impact how the processor and OS interact, however even if that is all fine, it may affect some applications such as ASUS AI Suite.

    Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-09T04:53:42+00:00

    I have a A10 and a A8 processor the system loads but you cant do anything I uninstalled this update now everything works again... hid update for 30 days ..why would you put out a update that wasnt needed for AMD ! Amd has stated these attacks cannot be done on there CPUS

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-01-09T04:40:18+00:00

    Are Microsoft accepting any feedback for Windows 7 Pro systems? I have an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU in an HP workstation, got BSOD after patching with KB4056894 (auto-restart disabled);  booted into System Restore, reverted to state immediately prior to patch installation, then went into Windows Updates settings and hid the update. System Event log shows update failure error 0x800f0816. I'm ecstatic I didn't install WX on this (reliable) dinosaur.

    This computer wasn't slated for replacement until 2020- in fact, I was about to upgrade the SSD to a larger faster one, but now I'm wondering if this patch wasn't a gambit to drive up flagging sales in the desktop world, and I'll be swimming upstream.

    I'd be happy to post the technical details (sans commentary) wherever it's most useful to Microsoft, just point me.

    Thanks for your time

    Kirk

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-01-09T04:25:45+00:00

    I've got an Athlon 64 x2 6000+, same as you, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, and Kaspersky Total Security v18 (Kaspersky rolled out their patched code in mid-December 2017). I have auto-restart turned off, so I got a BSOD upon reboot. System Event log shows 0x800f0816 for the failed patch error code. Booted into recovery mode using F8, ran System Restore back to point set by update, then it booted just fine. Went into Windows Updates and hid the KB4056894 update and it's working OK (for now).

    We will hopefully see M$ release a less-hostile patch for AMD computers soon; I don't like skipping patches while the hackers reverse-engineer them.

    Fingers crossed!

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