{"id":217,"date":"2009-05-02T16:18:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T15:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-05-18T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T07:27:43","slug":"possible-ksod-black-screen-of-death-solution-for-windows-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/possible-ksod-black-screen-of-death-solution-for-windows-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible KSOD (blacK Screen Of Death) Solution for Windows Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, my Windows Vista on my notebook started to have the KSOD (blacK Screen Of Death) syndrome. This syndrome is that after typing your username and password on the login screen, you are presented with a black screen and a mouse, nothing else.\u00a0When searching on the internet for solutions I found out that quite a few people experienced the same issue with all kinds of different solutions. I tried some suggestions like System Restore, file system check, registry changes\u00a0etc etc, but nothing was working for me.<\/p>\n

When you are presented with a KSOD, you can try to press the left SHIFT button a few times to trigger the sticky keys feature of windows. This will popup a window that contains a link. You can then click this link and from there you are able to launch different applications. Of course, if you disabled sticky keys, you are out of luck…<\/p>\n

After wasting almost a whole day on trying everything I could think of, I stumbled upon a\u00a0blog<\/a> where they said that it might be related to the eventlog. To test this, I wanted to disable the eventlog. Unfortunately you cannot disable the eventlog from a running Windows because some other services are relying on it. I booted into “safe mode with command prompt”, because normal safe mode would also give me the KSOD. I disabled the eventlog and rebooted the machine and to my surprise everything worked \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The next step was to delete all eventlog files from C:\\Windows\\System32\\Winevt\\logs, switch on the eventlog again, reboot and everything was again working \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, my Windows Vista on my notebook started to have the KSOD (blacK Screen Of Death) syndrome. This syndrome is that after typing your username and password on the login screen, you are presented with a black screen and a mouse, nothing else.\u00a0When searching on the internet for solutions I found out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13,31],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software","category-vista","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}