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BSOD after installing KB3197954
Hello, I am currently facing an issue regarding a specific windows update (KB3197954). Let me first explain how this BSOD issue started.
So back in summer, I finished building my new rig and installed a clean copy of Windows 10 Pro (november update) on my PC. Everthing worked and I was very happy with it. Then, the Anniversary update was released. The upgrade to the new build went smooth and everthing was working fine. But then Microsoft released update KB3197954 which really screwed it up.
Basicly, ever time when I turn on my system, windows will either keep BSOD'ing at either the boot screen or in the lock screen (sometimes it also BSOD's a few moments later after logging in). When the PC restarts after the BSOD, it happens again and again. Eventuelly after like 3 to 5 restarts, everthing will start working again and I will be able to use the system as if nothing was wrong with it. If I restart again, the pc will restart without any issues. But once I turn off the system and turn it on again next day, the occurance will re-occur again. It seems that this weird occurance happens only once each day.
When I uninstalled the KB3197954 update, the weird BSOD's would stop. Unfortunately windows update automaticly reinstalled the update again which caused the BSOD's to reappear again. To top it off: the update would no longer show up in the list of updates to uninstall, meaning that I was stuck with it.
So I decided to completely format the SSD and begin with a clean copy of the windows 10 anniversary edition. After installing Windows and the neccesary drivers, I installed all the updates including KB3197954 since I had hoped that the OS reinstall would have fixed any issue that might have caused this update to be so incompatible with my system. Unfortunately, all the BSOD's started occuring again after installing KB3197954, even after a full OS-reinstall.
So I uninstalled KB3197954 and disabled Windows update through group policy. But when Microsoft released KB3200970, I decided to download KB3197954 and then install KB3200970 to see if the new update fixed the issue. But unfortunately, the BSOD's were still there.
TL;DR Update KB3197954 caused my system to keep BSOD'ing at bootup.
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So basicly, my question is how, why is KB3197954 causing my PC to keep BSOD'ing? I noticed that the BSOD's each give a different error message such as BAD_POOL_HEADER, BAD_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, CRITICAL PROCCES DIED, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED.