We should add it's not permanently bricked, but it will take some mucking about in the BIOS to fix and that's a pain even for an experienced computer user. So now, if you have one of the affected motherboard and you keep your security updates automatic like wot Microsoft recommends, then your machine will stop working properly. That's right boys and girls - it makes it automatically install, unless you've specifically told your machine not to. It moved the update from 'optional' to 'recommended' and anyone who reads this site regularly will know what happens when Microsoft does this. The firm's advice was that it's an optional update, leave well alone, you'll be fine, or alternatively turn secure boot off. Microsoft entitled the article "BitLocker can't encrypt drives because of service crashes in svchost.exe process in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2", but we prefer to just call it "Trevor for brevity."
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Short version: install update, welcome to Borksville, population you.īoth Asus and Microsoft acknowledged the problem. Woody Leonhard, the respected Windows columnist, points to a problem involving Asus motherboards, which also appear rebadged in a variety of other manufacturers' machines, and the activation of UEFI Secure Boot for Windows 7 in a patch KB3133977. MICROSOFT HAS confirmed a potentially lappy-borking problem that it won't be fixing, because Windows 7. Microsoft suggests updating to Windows 10 to patch Windows 7
Microsoft Botches Up UEFI Support for Windows 7 on ASUS Motherboards