re: Vista - Mysterious Black Screen of Death Solution

Rick Darr — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:32:33 GMT

The Black screen hit me two days ago, my PC locked up as I was installing a Microsoft update. The above mentioned fix does not work for me, nor many others as I have found out by reading numerous posts. This is the cause according to Microsoft -

Article ID: 946532

Cause -

This problem may occur because of file system corruption within the $Txf directory. This corruption causes a deadlock condition between the Transactional NTFS (TxF) process and the Autocheck process.

Microsofts workaround -

To work around this problem, perform a clean installation or a parallel installation of Windows Vista.

Warning In a clean installation, existing data is deleted. This data includes personal data and settings. After you install the operating system, you must also reinstall all programs.

For more information about how to reinstall Windows Vista, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

918884 (support.microsoft.com/.../918884 ) How to install Windows Vista

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