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To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says (www.404media.co)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I am so confused. What's supposed to happen on the 15th reboot?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

The IT guy quits and it's no longer their problem to fix

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Probably triggers some auto-rollback mechanism I'd guess, to help escape boot loops? I'm just speculating.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welp, Ars Technica has another theory:

Microsoft's Azure status page outlines several fixes. The first and easiest is simply to try to reboot affected machines over and over, which gives affected machines multiple chances to try to grab CrowdStrike's non-broken update before the bad driver can cause the BSOD. Microsoft says that some of its customers have had to reboot their systems as many as 15 times to pull down the update.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/crowdstrike-fixes-start-at-reboot-up-to-15-times-and-get-more-complex-from-there/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yep. That makes more sense. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That's some high quality speculation