Black Screen for Windows Vista & XP
August 9, 2008 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
Microsoft has recently announced that Windows Vista will display a black screen when upgraded from OneKey Recovery 5.0 installed copies of Vista RTM to Windows Vista SP 1. Likewise, upgrading to Windows XP SP3 from SP2 would also bring the black screen.
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Microsoft has warned end users that performing Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 upgrades from copies of XP SP2 and Vista RTM, respectively, that have Onekey Recovery 5.0 installed will cause the operating systems to display a black screen following reboot. According to the Redmond company, the issue is generated by an incompatibility between the two service pack releases and Saming OneKey recovery software driver Safnt.sys.
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i am really not aware what,s the cause of this but can some help me out with this i have deployed some security patches and then i got the black screen on 10 systems having vista installed on them, what could be the possibility of such issue ,if it is a problem related to the updates then excactly which update is causing problem please help quickly