Windows 10: Microsoft issues Windows 10 BSOD warning for some Lenovo users

Windows 10’s latest batch of the cumulative update is causing a series of new problems for users, including Blue Screen of Death, performance issues, and another bug that breaks down Start Menu.

Microsoft has now confirmed that updates released in the last two months could crash Lenovo ThinkPad machines with Blue Screen of Death.

In a new support document that was quietly published over the weekend, Microsoft has warned that it has observed a number of other critical errors caused by KB4568831 or newer, which also includes the September 2020 patch.



Critical errors include “SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED” crash, stop error message screen, 0xc0000005 access denied, and system crash with process ldiagio.sys.

In a separate support document, Lenovo also acknowledged the reports and highlighted the possible errors that users may encounter after installing Windows 10’s latest cumulative update:

1. BSOD when booting, starting Lenovo Vantage and running Windows Defender Scan.
2. Windows Hello issues.
3. Errors in Device Manager for Intel Management Engine and IR Camera.

The problem appears to have been caused by a compatibility issue between Windows 10’s cumulative update, UEFI settings, and Lenovo’s Vantage app. With a cumulative update, Microsoft made a change that restricts how processes can access PCI device configuration and feature in UEFI could trigger this behaviour, which causes a Blue Screen.

Microsoft and Lenovo confirmed that affected models include ThinkPad machines from 2019 and 2020. While Blue Screen of Death is a serious problem, the good news is that there’s a relatively simple fix, according to both Microsoft and Lenovo.

If you get Blue Screen of Death on a ThinkPad machine, Microsoft recommends you to disable Enhanced Windows Biometric Security setting in UEFI.

If you’re unable to disable this setting, you should uninstall the updates released in September or August and pause Windows Update until Microsoft issues a fix.

“Lenovo and Microsoft are working on a fix for this problem,” Microsoft said.

Not just Lenovo devices, according to reports


As we’ve seen on forums, Reddit and other social media platforms, these Blue Screen of Death or performance issues aren’t limited to ThinkPad machines.

Some non-Lenovo PCs have reportedly been BSOD’ed by Microsoft’s latest round of cumulative update, but again the fix is relatively simple: uninstall the patch and pause updates.

If you’re unable to uninstall the patch, you can also try disabling Intel Virtualization Technology. Otherwise, the last option is using system restore to roll back to the previous version of Windows 10.

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Lenovo Ready to Launch Windows 10 Devices

Lenovo today announced it will begin shipping a wide selection of products loaded with Windows 10 starting July 29. Lenovo has an extensive list of products eligible for this upgrade including popular models like the YOGA 3 Pro and YOGA 500. Lenovo customers can check here for their product's eligibility.

Lenovo has worked with Microsoft Corp. to make the process of upgrading simple, for people with qualified Lenovo PC running Windows 7 SP1 or 8.1 to upgrade to Windows 10. Starting on July 29, the updates will roll out. If a user has reserved a copy of Windows 10, he/she will be notified once the compatibility process confirms that the user will have a great experience, and Windows 10 has been downloaded on their system.





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To give users consistent experiences across devices and operating systems, the preloads include a suite of Lenovo-written applications. The new Lenovo Companion 3.0 optimization tool keeps devices running at peak performance and can be used at any time to run a full-scale checkup and report back with specific actions to free up space and speed up the device. As a "smart" device control hub, the new Lenovo Settings lets users easily adapt and modify the way their device behaves. For example, when in tablet mode, the product will customize its display and other settings based on its orientation versus in traditional laptop mode. Alternatively, the device's usage will also alter its settings, for example when watching a movie versus reading an e-book. With SHAREit, customers can quickly transfer files between devices. For tablet users WRITEit takes the pen to a new level of functionality allowing users to write in any input field with their pen and the handwriting is converted to text.

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"With Windows 10, computing gets more personal, productive and connected," said Tom Shell, senior vice president, PC Business Group, Lenovo. "Across our entire PC product line, from the office to the home, we've optimized our Lenovo devices to give customers a great computing experience while giving them enhanced search tools like Cortana with REACHit."

 

New install Windows 10 (issue solved)

It's good that you're not experiencing any issues. Unfortunately many folks are, a quick Google search will show the same info im offering the OP.

Heres a couple examples:

Here

Here

It's basically what I mentioned above, small issues here and there ,but nothing to end your day.. for the most part.

I know it's anecdotal, but for my experience 95% of the time it's perfectly fine. The issues I've run into wouldn't be enough for me to roll back , but they would be enough (had I not installed it yet) ,to avoid it for another couple weeks which is why I'm suggesting it to the OP

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update problems and complaints

• Installation problems with the Fall Creators Update
• Microsoft Edge problems with the Fall Creators Update
• Drivers problems with the Fall Creators Update
• Experience problems with the Fall Creators Update

keep in mind, as of recently, the FCU is installed on 5% of devices roughly.....

 

Strange Windows 10 User Account issue.

Unfortunately I had done those steps numerous reboots, it just, reappears for no good reason. The base account isn't even a Microsoft account, it's a local account.

I haven't quite tried the built in administrator account on W10, but so far in my experience on my own computer, the built in account seemed to have absolutely no more control than I did on my own.

It's just strange, I go in, it warns me twice about deleting the account, then it's gone. Reboot, and it's back?

EDIT: Just to specify, both command line and Netplwiz both say only HIS account exists on the computer, it doesn't list this rogue account. This is what I meant in my first post about the fact that even Windows doesn't seem to believe it exists, HALF the time. *Frown