BSOD is already taken so the tech industry has named this frequent VISTA problem the ksod.
This is what happens, you reboot and you get a black screen with only a mouse cursor. No CTRL + ALT + DEL, no nothing.
As of this moment there are no definitive fixes, i personally spent over 6 hours trying things I thought would work then I went to the web and tried things “suggested” there and it was mostly the same things. Ended up re-installing Vista. (At some point customers would just rather have their pc back)
What causes this? Nobody knows. The most promising theory is that the log file gets messed up. Yup, the log file. The supposed fix was deleting the log file and replacing it with a new “good” directory. That didn’t work for me. Another theory was to reset the permissions for the drive. That didn’t work.
I wont go through all the supposed fixes here because it would just be duplicating whats already on the web. I will link to a page from PC Mag I found which seems to have a ton of good information. It can be found here.
I will keep researching this so that we can come up with a fix. Hopefully we figure out what causes it because an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure.
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