title: Emulator: emulator: WARNING: UpdateCheck: Failure: Error
body: <p>I was able to run the my AVD shown below successfully.
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fBQQc.png" rel="noreferrer">avd</a></p>
  
  <p>However after a couple of API updates and update of the Android Studio to 3.0, I'm unable to run the AVD successfully again. Keep getting the error below:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/EwcsY.png" rel="noreferrer">avd error</a></p>
  
  <p>My AVD is also super slow and i am running a windows PC with 8GB RAM.</p>
  
  <p>Below is the details of my avd.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Name: Pixel_API_25
  
  CPU/ABI: Google APIs Intel Atom (x86)
  
  Path: C:\Users\Blah\.android\avd\Pixel_API_25.avd
  
  Target: google_apis [Google APIs] (API level 25)
  
  Skin: pixel
  
  SD Card: 100 MiB
  
  hw.dPad: no
  
  hw.lcd.height: 1920
  
  runtime.network.speed: full
  
  hw.accelerometer: yes
  
  hw.device.name: pixel
  
  vm.heapSize: 256
  
  skin.dynamic: yes
  
  hw.device.manufacturer: Google
  
  hw.lcd.width: 1080
  
  hw.gps: yes
  
  hw.initialOrientation: Portrait
  
  image.androidVersion.api: 25
  
  hw.audioInput: yes
  
  image.sysdir.1: system-images\android-25\google_apis\x86\
  
  tag.id: google_apis
  
  showDeviceFrame: yes
  
  hw.camera.back: emulated
  
  hw.mainKeys: no
  
  AvdId: Pixel_API_25
  
  hw.camera.front: emulated
  
  hw.lcd.density: 480
  
  avd.ini.displayname: Pixel API 25
  
  hw.gpu.mode: auto
  
  hw.device.hash2: MD5:524882cfa9f421413193056700a29392
  
  hw.ramSize: 1024
  
  hw.trackBall: no
  
  PlayStore.enabled: false
  
  fastboot.forceColdBoot: no
  
  hw.battery: yes
  
  hw.cpu.ncore: 2
  
  hw.sdCard: no
  
  tag.display: Google APIs
  
  runtime.network.latency: none
  
  hw.keyboard: yes
  
  hw.sensors.proximity: yes
  
  disk.dataPartition.size: 800M
  
  hw.sensors.orientation: yes
  
  avd.ini.encoding: UTF-8
  
  hw.gpu.enabled: yes
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please help.</p>