Microsoft halts some AMD chip Spectre patches after PCs freeze
Microsoft halts some AMD chip Spectre patches after PCs freeze.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday it had suspended patches to guard against Meltdown and Spectre security threats for some computers running AMD (AMD.O) chipsets after complaints by AMD customers that the software updates froze their machines.
Microsoft said a in customer support blog post it had received complaints from AMD customers that their machines stopped loading the Start menu or taskbar after installing Windows operating system security updates.
The issues affect older generations of its chips, AMD said in a statement.
Some complaints on customer support blogs described computers freezing when users attempted to install Microsoft patches on decade-old Athlon X2 chips, for example. A spokesman declined to detail the range of AMD processors affected.