Windows 7 Updates not working

[River Valley Computer]

OK - here's the situation. A Dell D630 running Windows 7 HP 32 bit.

It is a computer we are setting up as a refurbished Win 7. Installed the OS and then went to do updates by the normal procedure online. Did not work 40-50 failed updates. Ran Windows Fixit for update problems. Reran update and same thing. Date and time correctly set.

Out of desperation he reinstalled the OS and updated again. No go. Then he ran WSUSOffline. Still no go.

He just reinstalled the OS again. Went to do updates - 179 updates at 587MB. Holy cow!!!

Anyone have any thoughts. I've got to keep Bob from hitting the bottle to get over this.

P.S. we have had a lot of systems doing this lately. Never been a problem before. Anyone else experiencing this lately?

Thanks in advance everyone.


Edit - just had another computer do the ssame thing - Toshiba Satellite A665 - Windows 7 HP - 59 updates failed.

 

[coffee]

A Dell D630 running Windows 7 HP 32 bit.

So, You mean to say that you are installing a HP Windows disk on a Dell?

Then your going to resell it?

coffee

 

[MichaelBits]

Perhaps try doing the updates in smaller batches... kinda like how win 8 craps out on large updates.


Better yet, you may want to look into doing installs more efficiently. Many ways to do this, but we just use winpe, imagex, and a couple little scripts and we can do a full win 7 load in 15 min with all updates already installed.

So, You mean to say that you are installing a HP Windows disk on a Dell?

Then your going to resell it?

coffee

Pretty sure that is Home Premium, not Hewlett Packard.

 

[coffee]

Perhaps try doing the updates in smaller batches... kinda like how win 8 craps out on large updates.


Better yet, you may want to look into doing installs more efficiently. Many ways to do this, but we just use winpe, imagex, and a couple little scripts and we can do a full win 7 load in 15 min with all updates already installed.



Pretty sure that is Home Premium, not Hewlett Packard.

DUH. Ok. Well, I guess my cold has the best of me today. I shouldnt have eaten that bowl of stupid today

sorry

coffee

 

[River Valley Computer]

So, You mean to say that you are installing a HP Windows disk on a Dell?

Then your going to resell it?

coffee

HP = Home Premium - sorry for the confusion.

 

[nlinecomputers]

It is likely that you only have a single update that is failing. Not all of them. WU hits the bad update and crashes and all the following ones fail. Need to check the WU logs and find which is the one that fails.

 

[River Valley Computer]

I tend to agree but I can't understand why it happening on numerous machines and at different times and just in the last 2-3 weeks. Also why is WSUS Offline screwing up?

 

[nlinecomputers]

In the past two months there have been a slew of faulty updates to come out of Redmond. I suspect that you'll find it is all the same update that is falling.

Also some machines seem prone to it. I don't recall the update but I've got one update that fails to install on every Lenovo I work on. Works fine if you install the update by itself. Roll it up with any others and it will crash everytime.

 

[River Valley Computer]

I agree - we have had KB2726535 error out often. We install it manually but it still doesn't seem to make a difference.

 

[gikstar]

Recently I had to do a reinstall of the o/s and it had that many updates to installed... took about an hour or so to end up notifying me that they didn't update properly, then it took more than an hour for the computer to back out of those updates. Tried it again, same problem.
I had to update it in batches, and that is how we handle the updates now.

Also, I have gotten messages that it wouldn't update - 'cause the automatic updates were running at the same time.

 

[johnrobert]

Assuming install DVD does not have sp1
I always install sp1 before doing updates then I never have a problem

 

[cypress]

Took this past weekend to create Slip streamed Windows 7 32 and 64 bit ISO's. Tested them on VM and got Windows installed with all the updates in about 30 mins or so. Was worth after seeing it mentioned here.

When i've had the issue that OP has, I usually install in small batches.