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Vista Black Screen, aka. Black Screen Of Death

Recently I replied to a post for help on TechNet.com, about the “BSOD” aka “Black Screen of Death”. I had come across a few com­put­ers in this con­di­tion. My ini­tial thought was Virus Infec­tion, or a “LNBTW” aka. “Lose nut Behind The Wheel”. But after a good deal of research, I came to the real­iza­tion that it was a sig­nif­i­cant update, or hard­ware change caus­ing these issues. It appears that Microsofts New Anti-Piracy tech­nol­ogy is inter­fer­ing with basic com­puter updates. Sig­nif­i­cant updates to RAM, Hard Dri­ves, or power sup­plies, are caus­ing issues with the new Microsoft Vista OS.

Here’s my story.……

I’ve been using Vista for a few weeks now, unfor­tu­nately. The only rea­son I’m using this god awful oper­at­ing sys­tem is that I need to repair Vista systems.

I haven’t found a per­ma­nent fix yet, but it seems to be related to an update, pos­si­bly NVIDIA nForce4 Ser­ial ATA or Sil­i­con Images Pseudo Proces­sor Device. If you’ve run into this issue and have recently installed these updates from Microsoft, please make it known. My tem­po­rary fix is to open the task man­ager, click file, click New Task, and type in explorer.exe then hit ok. This should fin­ish load­ing windows.

There seems to be a prob­lem load­ing all the ser­vices after these updates. On another note the repair func­tion isn’t able to detect my OS after these updates. Hope this helps. I’ll try to post a per­ma­nent fix after I fig­ure this out.

It turns out that by installing a new SATA hard drive, I caused Microsoft’s shiny new OS to not rec­og­nize my boot par­ti­tion, even with a through under­stand­ing of the OS, BIO’s, and related func­tions. In the long run, I even­tu­ally crashed Vista, maybe on pur­pose. But I can’t even tell you how happy I am to have XP back.