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Microsoft Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricked Some AMD PCs

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 10 2018, @01:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the making-boat-anchors dept.

takyon writes:

Microsoft's 'Meltdown' updates are reportedly bricking AMD PCs

Following reports of unbootable machines, Microsoft has halted updates of its Meltdown and Spectre security patches for AMD computers, according to a support note spotted by the Verge. It made the move after numerous complaints from users who installed the patch and then couldn't get past the Windows 10 splash screen. "To prevent AMD customers from getting into an unbootable state, Microsoft will temporarily pause sending the following Windows operating system updates to devices with impacted AMD processors," it wrote.

[...] "After investigating, Microsoft has determined that some AMD chipsets do not conform to the documentation previously provided to Microsoft to develop the Windows operating system mitigations to protect against the chipset vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown," the company said.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by tibman on Wednesday January 10 2018, @03:25PM (5 children)

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 10 2018, @03:25PM (#620485)

    Bricked is a term that laypeople have successfully stolen. It no longer means the device is permanently dead unless fixed with a hardware change (or complicated software change). Bricked is now dead without a nerd doing something (including simple software change) to fix it.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @03:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @03:55PM (#620495)

    Bricked is a term that laypeople clueless tech writers have successfully stolen.

    FTFY.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by linkdude64 on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:14PM (1 child)

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:14PM (#620576)

    Tech illiterates should never have been given "Write" access.

    I'll see myself out.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:44PM

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:44PM (#620692) Journal

      How about a compromise and let them write to /dev/null?

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @07:24PM (#620581)

    Bricked is a term that laypeople have successfully stolen.

    Oh, like "hacking"?

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by etherscythe on Thursday January 11 2018, @05:20PM

    by etherscythe (937) on Thursday January 11 2018, @05:20PM (#620985) Journal

    It has become a more nuanced term.

    dead without a nerd doing something

    That is what "soft bricked" means. "Hard bricked" still means what "bricked" used to mean.

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