Posted on Monday, January 08 2018 @ 13:18 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Register
warns Microsoft's fixes for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities are causing issues of their own. Various users are reporting that after installation of Security Update for Windows KB4056892, some AMD-based PCs refuse to boot. The issues seem linked to older and lower-end AMD CPUs, like the Athlon and Sempron series.
Users report Athlon-powered machines in perfect working order before the patch just don’t work after it. The patch doesn’t create a recovery point, so rollback is little use and the machines emerge from a patch in a state from which rollback is sometimes not accessible. Some say that even re-installing Windows 10 doesn’t help matters. Others have been able to do so, only to have their machines quickly download and install the problematic patch all over again …
At the moment, there is no fix.
