To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says
To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says
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To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says
Can't read the rest of the article because paywall but apparently users have chimed in saying rebooting 15 times worked for them. Whether they were serious or not remains a question. I can also imagine it was a time-related thing and after 15 reboots enough time has passed for it to be fixed so the user thought 15 times was the magic number.
Regardless, it's been a shit show.
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Much appreciated. Now I have access to the quote:
So fuck the headline, the real message is: yes, rebooting is an effective troubleshooting step at the moment.
I don't know the exact timing of that message in the timeline of the incident, so it could be early "please restart and see if issue persists" or late "something was updated, rebooting will probably help", I don't know.
My understanding is, it's just a matter of if the Crowdstrike updater service manages to connect to the internet long enough to download the patch before the core service takes a shit.