Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Black Screen Of Death And A Fix ? https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6646 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Black Screen Of Death And A Fix ? en-US Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:57:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.2 copmom on "Black Screen Of Death And A Fix ?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6646#post-68609 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:25:37 +0000 copmom 68609@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Addendum.. one thing I did note when I clicked on one of the links above was that someone was having a problem with their HP printer. Well, mine has USB ports for camera cards and my computer stopped recognizing my card reader quite some time ago. This rang a bell, so unplugged HP printer from computer and plugged in camera card reader. For a brief while it DID show up so there IS a connection (or conflict) between my printers card slots and the computer. Must piddle around with this some more!

copmom on "Black Screen Of Death And A Fix ?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6646#post-68560 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:27:48 +0000 copmom 68560@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

My problem had to do with the batch of updates on 10/15/09. When rebooting, I get the welcome screen, an hourglass, then a blank blue screen and it takes a full 8 minutes before the start/task bar and desktop icons show up. It would not allow a system restore. After that it works fine.
I have tried everything I could find online to fix this.
As I told someone else, I don't feel like spending a couple hours on the phone with a Microsoft tech. that probably doesn't speak English!
This had nothing to do with "interface between the chair and the keyboard".. this had to do with Microsofts auto updates, which I now have set to NOT allow that anymore!

Violet4714 on "Black Screen Of Death And A Fix ?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6646#post-68556 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:32 +0000 Violet4714 68556@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

lol...

agree with you, Graylox...

i've caused quite a few myself...

: )

notblocklox on "Black Screen Of Death And A Fix ?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6646#post-68554 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:44:30 +0000 notblocklox 68554@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Thanks Violet, it's interesting (and entertaining) to read the user comments, especially :

...just feels abit like alot of these issues are more to do with the interface between the chair and the keyboard...

 Violet4714 on "Black Screen Of Death And A Fix ?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6646#post-68553 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:51:05 +0000 Violet4714 68553@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Prevx apologizes to MS, says malware is to blame:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/183551/Security_Firm_Retracts_Black_Screen_Claims_Apologizes_to_Microsoft.html?tk=rss_news

http://www.prevx.com/blog/141/Windows-Black-Screen-Root-Cause.html

notblocklox on "Black Screen Of Death And A Fix ?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6646#post-68551 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:26:43 +0000 notblocklox 68551@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

I found this the other day:

Prevx offers a free fix for Windows Black Screen

This black-screen-of-death is one of the few bugs my system doesn't annoy me with, so I didn't try the fix.

Anonymous on "Black Screen Of Death And A Fix ?" https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6646#post-68528 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:30:18 +0000 Anonymous 68528@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/7783156C7397FD72CC25768000001E6F

Microsoft denies blame for 'black screens of death'
The windows patches which seem common to the issue arising are KB915597 and KB976098."

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2254291/microsoft-shoots-black-screen
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Microsoft today denied that its November Windows updates are causing a widespread "black screen" lock-out of users' PCs.