Windows 10: Windows 10 having issues after Windows Update issued firmware update.

A day ago, on 2/22/21, Windows 10 told me that it had to update. So I told it to update and shut down. Everything seemed to be fine. It updated and then shut down. Later, I wanted to check if my laptop was fine after the update. That's when the craziness began.


When I turned on my laptop, it took me to the GRUB menu I have a dual-boot setup with Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10, and I selected Windows 10. Afterwards, it told me to wait while it installed a firmware update with the boot logo visible. The screen disappeared but came back a second later with the same screen as before, except now with a progress bar. I expected it to do something, but it rebooted, and I selected Windows 10 again. It took me to my login screen. I tried to sign in with my fingerprint my laptop has a fingerprint sensor and then told me I had to set up my PIN. I was confused. Prior to this, I had a PIN and fingerprint login set up. So I went through the process of setting up a PIN. In the middle of the process, it stopped and told me that it needed an internet connection. I closed the window and it took me to my desktop, where it told me that I had to sign-in again to my school account it's not a school machine, so I can't take school IT support. I only use this device for checking my email and doing work when my school machine doesn't do what I need to do as well as this one. After I signed in to my school account again, I was tired, so I shut down the machine for the day.


The next day, I turned on my laptop to find myself in nearly the same situation as yesterday. It had to reboot twice for the firmware update exactly as described above, then the third time, it took me to my login screen, where I was able to log in with my new PIN. Now, this happens every time I start the machine and go to Windows 10 reboots twice saying that it has to apply firmware update, then taking me to the login screen.


Current issues: The issues I have now are that Windows has to reboot twice or thrice to enter the login screen, and Windows Hello no longer works I can't even set up a new PIN!.


Actions taken to solve the problem: I did some research, but found nothing related to my issue. I ran the Windows Update troubleshooter and it found no problems.


Potential causes: I have two so far: 1 My dual-boot environment messing up the Windows 10 update, or 2 Windows 10 messing up its own update. I think my dual-boot setup has something to do with the issue because I have had a firmware update before, and it worked fine.


Specs of my laptop:

Name: Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5

OS: Dual-boot with Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10

RAM: 16 GB

Storage: 512 GB SSD storage


I'm not sure the specs will help much, but it doesn't hurt.


P.S. If you need anything more, just ask.


Thanking you in advance.

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Windows update issues

Just a real quick question for you guys. Have any of you been having issues with Windows Update at all? I havent gotten updates in about 2months because of the following:

Error code 8024402f. I get the following from Help and support:

Its like this even with a fresh install of different OS's.

Not sure how to fix it.

 

Windows update issues

It works, but I still need to fix it so that way I dont have to plug computers directly to the modem to get windows update to work. It was also blocking me from installing directx.

 

Windows 10 Anniversary Update Issues

I know you posted back in August and likely have it already, but this page is useful for those still looking to upgrade to 1607, you can choose to use the new ISO or use this page and download: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12387/windows-10-update-history

Ya some folks have issues and corruption/failed update issues here. I personally haven't had any issues with 1607 on any of my personal rigs or family rigs, but have seen plenty of customer/client PC's. But depending on what your issues really are beyond vague slowness and OpenGL broken I'd start with running an administrative command line and run SFC /Scannnow and see if that resolves any OS corruptions.

Might not hurt to check and verify if the Windows Update cache is corrupted...I've been seeing this issue more on 7 than 10, but I've seen it on both.

Windows Update - Additional resources - Windows Deployment
http://ccm.net/faq/2471-how-to-purge-the-windows-update-cache

Hopefully that will get you in the right direction to resolving issues.

I'd also recommend checking Event Log system logs to see if there's something causing major issues, also if your hard drive is busy, get into Resource Monitor and find out what's taking up those resources. Might not hurt to run a malware scan just in case something was on there and is kicked now and just happened to coincide with the Windows Updates you ran.

*Toast :toast: