Windows 10 April 2018 Update issues with Intel and Toshiba SSDs are resolved

Posted on Monday, May 28 2018 @ 10:55 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
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Earlier this month, we wrote Microsoft blocked the Windows 10 April 2018 Update for systems with select Intel and Toshiba SSDs. In case of the Intel SSD 600p and Pro 600p products, issues with bluescreens occured, while customers with Toshiba XG4, XG5, and BG3 SSD based laptops suffered from lower battery life.

Both issues are fixed in KB4100403 (OS Build 17134.81), so users of these SSDs can now upgrade to Windows 10 April 2018 Update.
The patch to watch for — the one that resolves the problem — is KB4100403 (OS Build 17134.81). The update notes that it “Addresses an issue with power regression on systems with NVMe devices from certain vendors,” and later name-checks the affected products by name, including the Intel SSD 600p, and Pro 6000p. Meanwhile, a different error has been fixed in devices outfitted with Toshiba SSDs, including the XG4, XG5, and BG3 devices. While the Toshiba drives aren’t known to have any bluescreen problems like those afflicting the Intel drives, the Tosh products are apparently exhibiting lower battery life in some circumstances. This could theoretically be related to problems with NVMe and PCI Express power management. If, for example, the drives weren’t properly entering a powered-down state, they might wind up hogging more power (and likely heating up the system at least a bit) in the process.
Via: ExtremeTech


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