Windows 11 update is reportedly causing some PCs to crash or run very sluggishly

Wolfzz · Mar 17, 2024

Windows 11 update is reportedly causing some PCs to crash or run very sluggishly

March cumulative update is bad news for some users, going by reports

www.techradar.com

Berton · Mar 17, 2024

Installed 4 days ago, no issue on 3 Notebooks and 2 Desktops, both Pro and Home.

Flashorn · Mar 17, 2024

I haven't installed any of them yet and waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Am I being paranoid or is this MS trying to whittle out PCs/notebooks not up to their standards?

K7MEM · Mar 18, 2024

I installed KB5035853 on my 23H2 x64 laptop, on March 13. I haven't seen any issues. I have been running W11 for over 2 years and haven't had a single issue with any of the updates. Maybe I'm just lucky.

antspants · Mar 18, 2024

I have seen some odd new posts on and off that I have been curious to know if the update in question has cused. Sometimes asking if the thread starters have installed the update. However I do not follow the BSOD forum section.

K7MEM said:
I installed KB5035853 on my 23H2 x64 laptop, on March 13. I haven't seen any issues. I have been running W11 for over 2 years and haven't had a single issue with any of the updates. Maybe I'm just lucky.

Same here. But I sometimes wonder if it has been my ignorance to have not noticed any issues. This includes dating back through Windows 10.

Senecio · Mar 18, 2024

I haven't noticed any slowdowns in everyday use - I don't have any games installed, and a slowdown during a video render wouldn't be noticeable anyway if it were brief. However, I have recently installed a new BIOS, a new chipset driver and the Windows update, so yesterday I ran some benchmark programs to see if there was any difference, and there was a definite slowdown for about half a second during one of the graphics tests. The overall benchmark was very slightly slower, but it does vary from run to run.

Scott · Mar 26, 2024

K7MEM said:
I haven't seen any issues. I have been running W11 for over 2 years and haven't had a single issue with any of the updates. Maybe I'm just lucky.

Count me in as one of the lucky ones. Two self built systems, all updates installed (including preview updates) and never seen any issues.

Scott · Mar 26, 2024

antspants said:
But I sometimes wonder if it has been my ignorance to have not noticed any issues.

Nah, you'd notice a boot loop resulting in BDOD, or a BSOD immediately after installing the update, or an extremely sluggish system after the update. These are some of the things people are experiencing after the latest update.

RJARRRPCGP · Mar 27, 2024

Is anyone getting a message in the event log about a drive port being retried? That was a very-bad bug I saw with an early-version of Windows 10 back in 2016! I think it was 1511, if not the first RTM! Windows would keep hanging with the drive-LED lit solid for easily about 5-minutes straight! That old bug was oddly more likely to occur with SATA SSDs than with SATA platter drives!
FFS! I never had that problem with 8.1!

Flashorn · Mar 29, 2024

So, updated both 10 &11 today. Don't see any abnormalities in either . I guess
my waiting paid off.

Steve C · Mar 29, 2024

Wolfzz said:
Windows 11 update is reportedly causing some PCs to crash or run very sluggishly

March cumulative update is bad news for some users, going by reports

www.techradar.com

MS poor software QA strikes again!

RJARRRPCGP · Apr 1, 2024

"'Windows Recovery Environment servicing failed"(or similar, event ID 4502) -> No apparent reason, looks like the same partition size as my daily-driver, which Windows currently does not have that error. Saw this error message on one of my other Ryzen builds!
Note that this occurs on a clean install with SSD wiped before installing Windows!

Looks like to me, that it's possibly timing out too soon and possibly gives up in milliseconds!
The SSD doesn't have the typical symptoms of being faulty. SMART looks good.

Flashorn · Apr 1, 2024

RJARRRPCGP said:
"'Windows Recovery Environment servicing failed"(or similar, event ID 4502) -> No apparent reason, looks like the same partition size as my daily-driver, which Windows currently does not have that error. Saw this error message on one of my other Ryzen builds!
Note that this occurs on a clean install with SSD wiped before installing Windows!

That was supposed to be fixed with the last updates. If the WinRE partition is not large enough, you get an error.
Check the partition size. Mine 900 megs. I don't recall the size it should be but, allot of members have it at about 1Gig.

RJARRRPCGP · Apr 1, 2024

Flashorn said:
That was supposed to be fixed with the last updates. If the WinRE partition is not large enough, you get an error.
Check the partition size. Mine 900 megs. I don't recall the size it should be but, allot of members have it at about 1Gig.

It still defaults at 768 MB, IIRC and apparently that was fine with my system in the sig, with 11 Pro, with a clean install, but not the older Ryzen build, which has Windows 11 Home, where after the March CU, there is that error message, when I just installed Windows 11 23H2!
I still have yet to get that error message on my daily-driver!

I ended up making the call to make the WinRE partition 1 GB. Because I still have a lot of space on the 1 TB NVMe SSD!

I still haven't enlarged the WinRE partition on System One in my sig. (No WinRE-related error)