Beware of Fall Creators Update with a ASUS x299 MOB & Samsung NVMe SSD

[Superbowl]

Lots of people, including myself, are having big problems trying to update Windows 10 to the Fall Creators Update. We all get error message 0xc00000bb when trying to reboot to install the FCU. It seems as though almost all the people have the same thing in common: ASUS X299 MOB, a Samsung NVMe SSD, and lots of us also seem to have SATA drives with the SSD. See here from the Microsoft Technet Users Forum with the URL below. Lots of people having the same issue. Can ASUS, Samsung or Microsoft put out some sort of fix for this so we can all update ?

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/08485ba0-f69f-483b-861e-238f161dabee/problem-with-...

[Abaidor]

iepapas wrote:
Hello,

I have a 7940X on the ROG VI E with 128Gb DDR4 3333 Trident Z and one 960 Pro 1TB (with latest firmware) as a boot drive (also have 1 sata hdd and 2 sata ssds in raid 0). ROG VI E bios is up to date (1301).

I cannot upgrade to windows 1803 (nor 1709) from Windows 1703. Have used windows upgrade assistant, windows update and media creation tool. No luck. I get memory management BSOD. After two reboots it automatically goes back to 1703. I have tried cloning my nvme ssd to a sata ssd (Sandisk Extreme Pro), disabled the other drives but not luck. Same thing happened when I only had the nvme drive enabled and all other sata drives disabled. I have also tried using only Samsung nvme (latest 3.0) drivers and have tried just the Microsoft nvme drivers (uninstalled the Samsung one). No luck either. I need to avoid clean install. Must try to get the upgrade to work.

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance

Hmm strange.

I have the 7940X slightly overclocked 4.2GH All Cores and 4.7Ghz for 2 Cores, 64GB Trident Z RGB @ 3600 XMP and a Samsung 960Pro 512GB and Windows 10 1803 works perfectly. It was a fresh install though. The 960Pro is using the firmware it came with back in October 2017. I am also using BIOS 1301 and latest ME Firmware.

Is your system overclocked?

[iepapas]

Abaidor wrote:
Hmm strange.

I have the 7940X slightly overclocked 4.2GH All Cores and 4.7Ghz for 2 Cores, 64GB Trident Z RGB @ 3600 XMP and a Samsung 960Pro 512GB and Windows 10 1803 works perfectly. It was a fresh install though. The 960Pro is using the firmware it came with back in October 2017. I am also using BIOS 1301 and latest ME Firmware.

Is your system overclocked?

Yes, but only to 4.1 for all cores. I am trying to avoid a fresh install ( It will probably work if I try). But the aim is to do an upgrade (too many custom apps, will take at least one day to setup everything). The 960 Pro has the 4B6QCXP7 firmware.

[iepapas]

Tried with stock speeds for both CPU and RAM. No luck.
Also tried with SATA ports off, usb 3.0 devices disconnected, removed most ram and left it with only 32GB and removed one GPU. No luck.
I tried upgrade via usb using 1803 created with the MCT. No luck either (got a different error message this time - 0xC1900101-0x30017 The installation failed in the FIRST_BOOT phase with an error during BOOT operation. I usually get memory management BSOD for all other methods used to try and upgrade)

I really need to find a way to upgrade. It will be very annoying and waste of valuable time If I will have to spend two days doing a clean install and setup all programs from scratch.
It is a shame that ROG mobos have such issues. Had a similar problem (that thankfully was solved, but after many attempts) with my previous board ROG IV E X79 and the 950 Pro.