1/8/2008 updates are problematic

[Kyle]

I'm running Vista business 64. After installing the 1/8/2008 updates, my
computer took over an hour to configure the updates and shutdown before I
manually turned it off. The first 45 minutes or so it showed "Configuring
updates..." and the remaining time was "Shutting down". After restarting, I
got a configuring updates screen and windows restarted again on its own after
that screen.

The 7 updates are shown as being succesfully installed in Windows Update. In
Problem Reports and Solutions, there are 5 problems that occured duing the
updates:

-Windows encountered a problem while installing device drivers for your
Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller.
-Windows encountered a problem while installing device drivers for your
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller.
-Windows encountered a problem while installing device drivers for your IDE
Channel (3 times).

In the event viewer, there are hundreds of warnings and errors regarding the
updates under the following Event IDs: 4386, 4376, 4374, 4375, 4385.

 

[~Alex~.:MVP Windows Shell/User:.]

Are you sure these are new updates? Considering that the updates are sent
out the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Which is next week so no new updates
were issued as of 1/8/2008.

 

[John]

Are you sure these are new updates? Considering that the updates are sent
out the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Which is next week so no new updates
were issued as of 1/8/2008.

Check your calendar.
January 8 is the second Tuesday of the month.
Updates were issued today.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Sounds like you accepted an update for hardware in your system that was not
fully compatible with the installed hardware. Use System Restore to go back
to before the updates were installed, then check the update list and see
what's being offered to you.

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[~Alex~.:MVP Windows Shell/User:.]

Yes I see today is the 2nd tuesday. My glance at the calendar was off. I
didn’t count the first cause everyone around me was off that day.

But I still find it interesting how I didn’t get any updates...

--
~Alex T~
..:MVP Windows Shell/User:.

Sounds like you accepted an update for hardware in your system that was
not fully compatible with the installed hardware. Use System Restore to
go back to before the updates were installed, then check the update list
and see what's being offered to you.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
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* The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
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I'm running Vista business 64. After installing the 1/8/2008 updates, my
computer took over an hour to configure the updates and shutdown before I
manually turned it off. The first 45 minutes or so it showed "Configuring
updates..." and the remaining time was "Shutting down". After restarting,
I
got a configuring updates screen and windows restarted again on its own
after
that screen.

The 7 updates are shown as being succesfully installed in Windows Update.
In
Problem Reports and Solutions, there are 5 problems that occured duing
the
updates:

-Windows encountered a problem while installing device drivers for your
Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller.
-Windows encountered a problem while installing device drivers for your
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller.
-Windows encountered a problem while installing device drivers for your
IDE
Channel (3 times).

In the event viewer, there are hundreds of warnings and errors regarding
the
updates under the following Event IDs: 4386, 4376, 4374, 4375, 4385.

 

[forty-nine]

Yes I see today is the 2nd tuesday. My glance at the calendar was off. I
didn’t count the first cause everyone around me was off that day.

But I still find it interesting how I didn’t get any updates...

Top posters didn't get the updates.

 

[Dave]

I did.. ;-)

 

[DarkSentinel]

I'm running Vista business 64. After installing the 1/8/2008 updates, my
computer took over an hour to configure the updates and shutdown before I
manually turned it off. The first 45 minutes or so it showed "Configuring
updates..." and the remaining time was "Shutting down". After restarting,
I
got a configuring updates screen and windows restarted again on its own
after
that screen.

The 7 updates are shown as being succesfully installed in Windows Update.
In
Problem Reports and Solutions, there are 5 problems that occured duing the
updates:

-Windows encountered a problem while installing device drivers for your
Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller.
-Windows encountered a problem while installing device drivers for your
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller.
-Windows encountered a problem while installing device drivers for your
IDE
Channel (3 times).

In the event viewer, there are hundreds of warnings and errors regarding
the
updates under the following Event IDs: 4386, 4376, 4374, 4375, 4385.

Only problems I had was that I had left WLM open, and it said it could
finish because required files were in use. Closed out, rebooted and
everything was fine.

 

[Mark R. Cusumano]

Actually there was a group of updates that were issued 1/8/08. Some of them
were in preparation of the SP1 update.

 

[Mark R. Cusumano]

And yet I got the updates?!?! Hmmm. Must be another Vista screw up!

(tongue firmly in cheek)