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Black Screen On Boot After Windows Update
Welcome all, first post, been lurking for a while. I need some advice now.
My problem started yesterday, woke up in the morning and woke up my computer - it ran for about 20 seconds and then locked up. Keyboard or mouse input did nothing, so I hard restarted. The system tried to run a disk check on reboot, which I skipped, but then booted to the infamous Black Screen of Death, all I had was a mouse cursor. I was able to get the sticky keys screen to pop up, but nothing else; I was unable to bring up Task Manager, System Properties, or any windows.
Rebooting and letting the disk check run found some errors, corrected them, but did not solve the black screen problem.
Booting into Safe Mode produced the exact same problem.
Booting to the Windows CD and running repair did not solve the problem, performing a system restore also did not solve the problem (last system restore point was at a critical system update on the 12th, the system had not been shut down since then).
With no other options I formatted the drive and reinstalled Windows. Everything went fine and by yesterday afternoon I had a nice new install of Windows. Woke up this morning and the system was still fine, Windows Update popped up saying a restart was needed to finish a critical system update. Since the OS install was less than a day old, I didn't think anything of it. The system went down, installed the update, on reboot Windows ran through a disk check, found and corrected errors, rebooted again, and then booted to a Black Screen of Death.
I really don't know what to do right now. I figure I can format and reinstall again, then disable automatic updates, but that's not really a viable long-term solution. Or maybe there's something other than the system update that causing the problem? I'm not sure what to do.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
OS is Win7 x64 Pro running on an AMD FX-60 system.
Clark