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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yep, that's definitely a fix....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

God damn it i've been rebooting it 15 times Gay. 🤦‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

that was your first problem. if it was designed by techbros, always assume it's Straight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We did get 7 computers back by 1am last night just by constantly rebooting.

That said, 40 out of 47 never came back. So clearly something more is needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Have you tried 15 more reboots?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Hey I missed one of your messages because I was rebooting. What did it say?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

No no.

Have you tried turning it off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on again?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

If this somehow works, good on Microsoft, but what the fuck are they doing on boot cycles 2-14? Can they be configured to do it in maybe 5? 3? Some computers have very long boot cycles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

There's nothing magical about the 15th reboot - Crowdstrike runs an update check during the boot process, and depending on your setup and network speeds, it can often take multiple reboots for that update to get picked up and applied. If it fails to apply the update before the boot cycle hits the point that crashes, you just have to try again.

One thing that can help, if anyone reads this and is having this problem, is to hard wire the machine to the network. Wifi is enabled later in the startup sequence which leaves little (or no) time for the update to get picked up an applied before the boot crashes. The wired network stack starts up much earlier in the cycle and will maximize the odds of the fix getting applied in time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Just imagine if it's a build farm with hundreds of machines. Jesus. That's a hell I wouldn't even wish on my worst enemy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

there's an easy fix. it could be done with a single boot attempt if M$ hadnt made it so needlessly difficult to enter safe mode

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Many of the machines in question will have safe mode walled off for security reasons anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

fair enough. i can see that disabling safe mode would be a decent security measure. but by the time that kind of exploit is used, you've already got bad actors inside your network and there are much easier methods available to pivot to other devices and accounts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Laptops are often taken outside the network.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Well then obviously you could opt to restrict safe mode on laptops only, or laptops and desktops allowing you to get your server infrastructure up quickly so at least the back end is running properly.

Ffs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Most of our machines at my office run Win 10 or 11 and we haven't had the blue screen. I was wondering why we hadn't experienced this. Still don't know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You don't use CrowdStrike presumably

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Azure is MS's cloud computing. As long as you weren't using MS OneDrive, or 365 Office, or something else that relied on MS cloud, you're good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Actually it's due to whether your company uses CrowdStrike or not.

The issue is not being caused by Microsoft but by third-party CrowdStrike software that’s widely used by many businesses worldwide for managing the security of Windows PCs and servers.

Supposedly, one of the fixes (aside from rebooting and hoping it grabs the update fire) is to delete a single file in the CrowdStrike directory after booting into safe mode.