[Red Badger]

AAAACCCCHHHH! The BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!..........

[colorado tanker]

Well, this should make for even more funny Apple commercials.

[steve-b]

the "black screen of death"

Black is the new blue.

[ottbmare]

Erg. Seven came on my new computer. Please, God, spare me this—I’ve had SO many other computer problems in the pas several months and I desperately need a functional machine so I can look for work!

[McGruff]

Reports suggest the flaw also affects Vista, XP and other systems.

Then why wasn't it reported years ago? Something smells fishy. I'm emailing Whitehouse.gov.

[tgusa]

Hmmm. Upgraded to Win 7 Ultimate on my Latitude E6400 last week - have downloaded all updates - no problems thus far. In fact I love it, Win 7 is MUCH cleaner than Vista.

[andy58-in-nh]

This time it's going to be different. Trust me.

[bigbob]

“totally black”...

Isn’t that racist???

[BubbaBasher]

Software firm Prevx, which has issued a fix for the problem...

Most likely malware they installed in the first place.

[TomGuy]

“Windows7 won’t have the problems VISTA had. Trust me.”

[snicker]

[lucky american]

This happened to me on Wednesday. Totally black screen. I thought the monitor went bad.
Shut down the computer and rebooted. It hasn't done it again.

[VeniVidiVici]

Nothing about who Prevx is or what they did to the computer to cause this to happen.

Typical BS reporting.

[pyx]

Five things you can do to help yourself;
1.) Save your important office documents to a USB Drive. USB drives are very inexpensive.
2.) IF your PC hardware is fairly run of the mill and is less than five years old AND
3.) IF you can burn iso files onto CD's on your PC AND
4.) IF your PC uses DHCP to obtain your computer's IP address AND
5.) IF you are able to set your PC's BIOS to *first ATTEMPT to boot from the CD AND THEN to boot from the hard disk.

I would suggest you go to the Linux Ubuntu Website and READ the ALL of information on that one web page and then download the correct ISO file for your PC. There is a CD boot option to TRY Ubuntu from the CDROM BEFORE you install. Then burn this file to a blank CD and label the CD disk.

It is your 'Connect to the Internet' insurance that you can boot automatically from your CD, connect to the internet and ensure you have a web browser that works and Office software that also works so you can access your documents on your USB drive.

*This BIOS setting will boot from the hard disk normally if there is NO CD Disk in the CD ROM drive.

[ShadowAce]

[RichardW]

This has happened to me several times but there is a fix. Shut the machine down, reboot it and wait for the screen to come up that says it is looking for a “solution.” Has brought me back to where I was working and nothing was lost. Aggravating but not terminal.

[tubebender]

MSFT...The original Change and Hope...

[papasmurf]

Microsoft Denies

[kalee]

ping

[Born Conservative]

Changed from Blue Screen to Black Screen to be politically correct and in tune with the current Executive Branch...