Black Screen After Every Update

burns4380

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Jan 21, 2018
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Every time there is a windows 10 update I try to do it. Every time though after the update is done, I log in and then the screen goes black, but my cursor is there. I can hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete to sign out and go to task manager and do everything there, but when I click task manager, it spins the circle next to the cursor but doesn’t load. It does the same exact thing in safe mode. So everytime there is a big Windows 10 update, I have to “go back to a previous version” in the troubleshoot options when i hold shift and click restart. This takes me back to the older version and everything works perfectly. But this time around, it is a security update or something so it keeps wanting to install after I go back to a previous version. It installs that “Windows Update Assistant” and goes to work and forces me to update again leading to another black screen.

I even bought a new hard drive recently. I cloned my old hard drive to my new one (Seagate Firecuda 1tb) using Macrium Reflect, everything worked. I got the update assistant to update windows last night and tried the update, but it still didn’t work.

I hope someone knows a solution, I’ve tried a couple, but at this point I’m open to anything that will fix it since it is such an annoying problem.
 
Hello burns4380

There can be a few things you can do, namely:

> Try to update all the drivers (especially the graphics driver) before updating Windows.

> After Windows update, if the black screen comes again, Start the PC in Command Prompt, and Run the SFC /SCANNOW Command with the /OFFBOOTDIR=D:\ /OFFWINDIR=D:\ parameters.

> Check if the BIOS is updated to the latest version. Please make sure to back up the current BIOS before updating.

Feel free to report back if further assistance is needed.

Cheers!! :)
 

laxamar

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Jan 26, 2018
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I had same issue with AMD motherbooard. Turns out Windows 10, in it's infinite wisdom, was un-installing SATA AHCI drivers (ahcistore.sys) and replacing it with .. nothing. The solution was to force driver update to use the AMD SATA driver from their chipset drivers (which does not auto-install).

For the full glory of the hell I went through : http://musings.amar.com/2018/01/19/month-of-bsod-thanks-microsoft-and-amd/

Hope this helps
 
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burns4380

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Jan 21, 2018
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I tried the 1st one and I still got the black screen, and now in command prompt, it is saying “Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service”. Will try the 3rd thing next