Unable to update Windows 10 to v1809. Freezing at boot after reboot.

On acer switch 11v, i was able to update with update assistant tool, with a few errors on restart. Eventually got it, and restarted a few times after just fine. But i shut down completely, and thats when problems started.  It would never boot up. Eventually forced to use recovery drive, but did little to help. Tried startup repair, fix mbr in command prompt nothing worked. Still wouldn't boot from a complete shutdown.  Forced to do a fresh install. Then i updated to 1803, which was fine.  But when i tried to update to 1809 again, same thing. It would never boot up from a complete shutdown. So did a fresh install again, now on 1803 again til this gets sorted out. 

I'm having the EXACT same issue on the same machine. A few of my students are claiming their devices did Windows Updates last night now the machine freezes on startup!

I'm still on 1803 now, my machine won't let me update to 1809 anymore even when I do a "check for updates", which leads me to believe that at least Microsoft is aware of the problem, or at least has detected that my machine has done a bad update in the past. But the fact that it allows your students to update is worrisome, in that it doesn't flag specific models as troublesome, only users who have had unsuccessful udates? 

Curious - what version of windows 10 are you on?  My HP Spectre (Win 10 Pro) is doing the same as yours it appears.  !809 is not being offered.

On acer switch 11v, i was able to update with update assistant tool, with a few errors on restart. Eventually got it, and restarted a few times after just fine. But i shut down completely, and thats when problems started.  It would never boot up. Eventually forced to use recovery drive, but did little to help. Tried startup repair, fix mbr in command prompt nothing worked. Still wouldn't boot from a complete shutdown.  Forced to do a fresh install. Then i updated to 1803, which was fine.  But when i tried to update to 1809 again, same thing. It would never boot up from a complete shutdown. So did a fresh install again, now on 1803 again til this gets sorted out. 

I'm having the EXACT same issue on the same machine. A few of my students are claiming their devices did Windows Updates last night now the machine freezes on startup!

I'm still on 1803 now, my machine won't let me update to 1809 anymore even when I do a "check for updates", which leads me to believe that at least Microsoft is aware of the problem, or at least has detected that my machine has done a bad update in the past. But the fact that it allows your students to update is worrisome, in that it doesn't flag specific models as troublesome, only users who have had unsuccessful udates?

On acer switch 11v, i was able to update with update assistant tool, with a few errors on restart. Eventually got it, and restarted a few times after just fine. But i shut down completely, and thats when problems started.  It would never boot up. Eventually forced to use recovery drive, but did little to help. Tried startup repair, fix mbr in command prompt nothing worked. Still wouldn't boot from a complete shutdown.  Forced to do a fresh install. Then i updated to 1803, which was fine.  But when i tried to update to 1809 again, same thing. It would never boot up from a complete shutdown. So did a fresh install again, now on 1803 again til this gets sorted out. 

I'm having the EXACT same issue on the same machine. A few of my students are claiming their devices did Windows Updates last night now the machine freezes on startup!

Found Lenovo published BIOS upgrade (Dec 10, 2 days before 1809) and I'll try to upgrade to 1809 again.

I hope that Microsoft will quickly come up with a solution to this problem.

It is very quiet at the moment.

I use an ASUS M5 A99X evo motherboard, so it does not only deal with MSI.

Would be nice if Microsoft also responded to this.

GJ

ps. try today again to update, same problem, freeze screen at boot, so back to 1803 with image.