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Various websites have reported that a fix for the “black screen of death” problem on Windows 7 will not be included on the set of patches that will be released on Tuesday.
“Microsoft has investigated reports that its November security updates made changes to permissions in the registry that are resulting in system issues for some customers,” said a spokesman for Microsoft in response to the issue that the problem started to occur after the November updates. He also said that the behavior is not a not “a broad customer issue.”
Source: Information Week
My system has been experiencing black screens on boot for several months due to dual-booting. For some strange reason, the Boot Manager doesn’t like to load all the drivers at boot when you switch between 32bit and 64bit operating systems. The characteristic is much like it is caching drivers within the boot manager.
The way I have found to work around this issue is to boot in Safe Mode and use the GUI to restart the computer once the Welcome screen appears.
I realize this isn’t exactly the black screen of death as people are reporting (though it made its original appearance with ME), but it is definitely a black screen that will keep the computer from getting into Windows.
I hope this helps someone out there and maybe MS will use this workaround to put in a fix for the boot manager since this is the first boot manager from MS that has actually been user-friendly to the multi-boot community (minus this one little flaw).
Why should it be included in the next set of patches as it is not the fault of Microsoft, but that of malware? It was inaccurate reporting that keeps on spreading.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141670/Security_firm_retracts_black_screen_claims_apologizes_to_Microsoft?taxonomyId=17