Microsoft Surface Pro 4: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

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Problem :
Ms Surface Pro4 was stuck after a critical windows 10 update. It would keep rebooting and Display the Blue screen of death with “SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED” message.

Solution :
For me, constantly hitting F8 ( or Fn+F8) while it was restarting finally forced the system to “Restore the previous version of windws”. It may work for someone else too.

Additional Info

  1. Error message I was getting did not have any file name ( like ClassPNP.sys)
  2. I didn’t have to go as far as booting in safe mode and then uninstalling the display driver as suggested on Microsoft Post.
  3. Instead of F8, you may have to hit Fn+F8 .
  4. No data was lost, since the problem was with windows installation alone.