Can anyone explain what happened with these mystery windows updates that screwed me?

velvta · Post by **velvta** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:03 am

Got a new system set up over the weekend. Sunday night everything was fine, i was doing some overclock testing on my graphics card and running Furmark. I then played Deus Ex Hr. Everything was going off without a hitch. I shut things down for the night and in being the system was just set up, I'm trying to think of anything I might be forgetting to set. My eyes glanced across the windows notification in the task bar and I remembered that I better set it up to never auto install any updates. So I did that. All the important updates had been installed a few hours prior. I went to shut down and it said windows is installing updates. i was confused because I didnt see anything saying there were updates to install and I certainly did not click to install any. So it did its thing and shut down. I woke yesterday, turned the PC on and it was continuing to set up the updates. Then I get a BSOD. I restarted, and got another once. Booted into safe mode and it then said that windows didnt start properly so its reverting the windows updates. BSOD. Basically to make a long story short, no matter what i did, I was getting the pagefault in non paged area bsod. I tried system recovery and tried restoring to an earlier point and lo and behold not one recovery point would work (on a side note id love to know why recovery points dont work. So I basically had to reformat C:\ and re-install Windows and I'm running fine again now, but I'd love to know if anyone could shed some insight into this.

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:49 pm

Unfortunately Windows Update will occasionally hose Windows. All you should have had to do was tap F8 at startup and select Last Known Good Configuration. Consequently you should try to get a copy of Windows 7 if possible (since it's a fresh install you could download and install the Windows 8 Developers Preview at 8PM PDT tonight).

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:39 pm

Not enough details, what was the error of the blue screen? or could have check the windowsupdatelog file.
I haven't seen a Windows Update tank a system in a long time...at least not the critical ones that would self install. And that long time encompasses a lottttttt of computers.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:44 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Not enough details, what was the error of the blue screen? or could have check the windowsupdatelog file.
I haven't seen a Windows Update tank a system in a long time...at least not the critical ones that would self install. And that long time encompasses a lottttttt of computers.

I had one tank back in April or May... Windows 7

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:59 pm

The only time I have seen this happen is on OEM pc's such as HP where there is some proprietary changes in Windows that HP adds. This is why I always do a clean install of the OS even when a pc is new, never had any issues doing it that way.