Fix Windows Vista SP2 Startup Black Screen of Death

By Sandip Dedhia on December 30, 2009
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Some time back we had covered Pervx utility to fix Windows 7 Black Screen of Death. Similar issue seems to have involved in Windows Vista. When you start a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, it stops responding at a black screen early in the startup process.

Microsoft has acknowledge the Vista black screen of death and said that the issue occurs because of a deadlock between a thread in Windows NT File System driver (Ntfs.sys) and a thread in the Autochk.exe program.

Windows Vista black screen of death may occur sometime or every time you reboot your computer. Fortunately the hotfix to fix this issue is already available for download at Microsoft support site.

Download Fix977675 to fix Windows Vista black screen of death.

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Sandip Dedhia

Sandip Dedhia

Sandip Dedhia is the founder of Blogsdna.com, he loves to write on technology, gadgets & web services. At Blogsdna you can read his Windows & freeware software related articles. He is on twitter too @sandipnd View author profile

  • http://www.iyogi.net Jenny Robinson

    Windows Vista introduced many new features and incorporated huge changes as compared to Windows XP. And The features i like are Replacement for Outlook access in form of Windows Mail, Advanced audio, print and display sub-systems and Visual style dubbed Windows Aero.

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  • BobxT

    Wrong Fix..! Fix291755 is to “Fix Windows 7 Windows Media Player 12 Video Flickering”

  • http://www.blogsdna.com Sandip

    Thanks for notifying our mistake. I have updated the link.

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