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October 18th, 2020 08:00
Windows 10 Update Issues
It appears that my Precision Workstation is no longer supported under Windows 10. I used to have support last year; however, it appears that Microsoft is dropping support for some Dell computers. I received no notification of this at all, but newer Windows 10 updates fail on my T7600 workstation. I have the latest BIOS available, and this issue started this year. The October Windows 10 cumulative update results in a Windows 10 reboot loop failure. I am suspecting that Dell has ceased collaboration and cooperation with Microsoft for C600 hardware. This is the only logical explanation for going from zero problem perfect updates last year to failures with the latest versions of Windows 10 this year. I am still on Windows 1909. Windows 2004 update absolutely fails. The Windows 1909 October update also fails in the same manner that the 2004 update does.
Was purchasing a Dell Workstation a mistake?
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October 18th, 2020 15:00
Hello @Dryne ,
I have Dell T3610 and as far as I can remember I had perfectly updated Windows 10 1903 to Windows 10 2004 previous month. And it was working and updating just fine. Well, I have never heard Windows not updating due to an old PC. I am currently using 1903 because I had heard that Windows 10 2004 could make your PC slow as compared to 1903 and I have also disabled Windows features Updates just because of this.
Check this: https://betanews.com/2020/10/17/windows-10-kb4579311-cumulative-update-problems/
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October 18th, 2020 15:00
Well, honestly I have no Raid and I do not know what that is. Probably a server thing but I am using it as a Desktop. I have a Samsung SSD and Segate HDD.
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October 18th, 2020 15:00
That is interesting that you successfully updated. In another thread, there was mention of RAID causing issues. Did you also have a PERC installed as your primary controller?
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October 18th, 2020 16:00
That would explain it.
RAID is multiple hard drives running concurrently. I have a Precision workstation with a H710P PERC RAID controller card. It supports four 3GB hard drives that have data spread across all four. If one hard drive dies, my system would still function with no data loss. Also, the read performance is greatly increased as well. The controller card has a 1GB memory cache, so reads and writes go directly to memory that the controller handles later.
Windows 10 has built-in driver support for this, but the Microsoft programmers are not testing their code changes thoroughly enough that is introducing all sorts of failures for all Windows users.
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October 23rd, 2020 22:00
Okay -- I think I figured out what the issue is with the nonstop reboots with Windows 10. The issue is that I selected UEFI filesystem. UEFI supports Secure Boot that my Precision T7600 has zero support for. What I suspect is happening is that Microsoft is making use of Secure Boot that is crashing my Dell. There is no way to turn off Secure Boot for the T7600. If I was using legacy boot, I probably would not face this issue at all.
I discovered this when installing Ubuntu LTS 20.04. It performed this same exact boot loop when I installed using UEFI. There was no way to prevent it. It could be that my PERC RAID controller card is running unexpected code that has something to do with this issue. This is a bug. I am not sure if it is Dell's BIOS bug or Microsoft and Ubuntu's bug.