A Dozen 24H2 Bluescreens On My Dell 11

Yep. That's pretty much all this is; anger, frustration and fear mongering. The reality is that the majority of users will not experience any issue, and certainly not anything like @EASTER claims to have had. Is it MS's fault, or is something else going on. I don't know. In any case, this rabid screaming that the sky is falling helps no one, specially when there's a lack of detail in terms of what exactly went wrong.

 

Oh not you again- Add some coals to an unburning flame. Sheeez

 

The fact that I'm not the only one to mention your pearl clutching demonstrates the problem is you and not me.

 

Thanks for the continuing unwavering support. It would make @Bill_Bright proud.

 

I must be lucky. I have Win11 24H2 on a 2nd and a 4th generation Intel CPU system. No issues at all. They are MBR systems.

Edit... There are no issues on several other computers with supported hardware.

 

Thanks for the positive Nod @Brian K - Same as others seem to have found to satisfaction.

Currently conducting study why this DELL Inspirion which is only 2 years old went through mega BSOD at me the way it did.

I hope that i narrowed down at least one avenue of possibility. My Updates Schedule of Wait 7 Days is 1 such on the list. I have seen my regular updates when they do meet that limit delay. It's my understanding ALL updates are necessary for a smooth Upgrade. A missed SSD update maybe? Or another skip of some sort. I continue to conduct damage control and look for anything that might have caused it to so frequently BSOD, even after a restored C"\ partition restore. Pretty vicious ordeal.

 

EASTER,

How did you upgrade to Win11 24H2? I use a Rufus UFD and a new Rufus version has been released in the last few days. Double click setup.exe in the UFD.

Download the 24H2 ISO and use Rufus to make the UFD. Tick all 6 boxes.

EDIT, do you have either SSD mentioned by JRViejo?

 

Awesome news since I have a 10 year old PC. I hope when I have the courage to update or when windows decides to on its own it works. I have WU paused.

 

zapjb,

Is it a MBR system? Which CPU do you have?

 

Yes MBR. Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4300M CPU.

 

It is neither of those but It came with the DELL 3502. Named Intel Pentium Silver NVMe BC711 4 Cores/4 Threads

Initially i simply acted on the Windows Updates that said it was ready for 24H2.

Afterwards i tried a UFD with the 24H2 via Rufus with ALL 6 boxes checkmarked,

 

Mine is i3-4160.

 

Seeing this particular stat @Brian K gives me renewed encouragement that my first failed attempt to upgrade was just a one off.

 

I'd expect you have a recent, supported CPU.

 

Excuse my ignorance. But why is that?

 

Coz while i'm not 100% sure, i am almost certain my Spec is at least i5/i7. I honestly can't keep up with all the terminology involving CPU's/SSD fine specs. I been ages locked to HDD spindle drives longer than most.

 

It's the numbers after i5 i7 that matter.
4000 would be 4th generation.
5000 would be 5th generation.
6000 would be 6th generation
etc

I think Win11 requires 8th generation or better. Officially.

 

This failed, of course. Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop. Core 2 Duo CPU. 4 GB RAM.

Win11 UFD booted and Windows logo seen. 15 seconds later the laptop restarted. All over.

 

Why of course?

 

The hardware was just too old. I didn't expect it to work but I tried anyway.

 

Win11 24H2 runs very well on my old MBR computer. I'd be happy to use the computer for everyday work. It's not slow.

The computer...
CPU Intel Core i5-2400 (second generation)
MB Gigabyte Z68X-UD3-B3
RAM 8 GB
SSD one
HD one

There are multiple OS on the SSD.

Linux Mint 21
Linux Mint 22
WinXP
Win11 21H2
Win11 23H2
Win11 24H2 1
Win11 24H2 2

Win11 24H2 2 was installed yesterday, cleaned up and had 13 GB of used space. The partition was resized to 16 GB. I decided to copy this partition to make 15 copies. A copy only took 80 seconds so I'm not crazy. So now I have 17 working Win11 24H2. They are all fine. No problems at all.

Many sources on Google say Win11 24H2 can't be installed on a MBR disk. How about 17?

 

Incredible I decided after being out of town today to give mine a Time Out just to see how the next weeks or so go with others,

But that degree of O/S's to a single SSD is an achievement in itself.

 

I checked and all Win11 were already activated with a Digital license. The computer was bought with a Win7 Pro OS. I rescued the computer from a mate's garbage and installed a SSD.

Win11 24H2 2 was copied to the HD. It took 275 seconds. HDs are slow.
Boot time of Win11 on the SSD to a loaded desktop was 15 seconds.
Boot time of Win11 on the HD to a loaded desktop was 210 seconds.
Initial opening of File Explorer of Win11 on the SSD was less than 1 second.
Initial opening of File Explorer of Win11 on the HD was 6 seconds. Second opening was less than 1 second.

Microsoft Edge performed well on the Win11 HD system. Better than I expected.

So Win11 on a HD is not something you would use by choice but it's faster than Win10 on a HD.