AMD Ryzen CPUs randomly freeze for minutes

December’s Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 22H2 caused AMD Ryzen CPUs to randomly freeze for minutes at a time — the system would lock up completely, unresponsive to any input, before eventually recovering as if nothing happened. Installation failed at 99% with error 0x800f081f, taunting users with near-completion before crashing. Task Manager’s color rendering broke, making CPU/memory graphs unreadable. AMD users, already accustomed to being second-class citizens in the Windows ecosystem, got a special holiday gift of random system paralysis.