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Ram
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Black Screen of Death Reported by the Beeb
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Ubuntu LXDE 12.04 running on AMD Phenom II*4; ASUS Crosshair III Formula MB; 4 GB Ram.....
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pctechie
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| And by the looks of it another update by MS did this, suprize suprize, well no not really this has happened before, that's why I update windows manually, when I'm using it that is, I use Ubuntu majority of the time no MS updates here lol |
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Ram
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| Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| pctechie wrote: | | And by the looks of it another update by MS did this, suprize suprize, well no not really this has happened before, that's why I update windows manually, when I'm using it that is, I use Ubuntu majority of the time no MS updates here lol |
I've seen this issue before on XP as well as with the lastest update, after auto updates, fix both earlier issues (1 was mine) by using the recovery console and running chkdsk /f. This last time a couple of 3 finger shuffles resolved it (mine again but this time I have the drive dual booting with Slackware 13 couldn't be pestered looking for the CD.).
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Ram
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Was not just on AVG, had a similar thing at work with McAfee renaming files and breaking apps.
Edit to add just
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towy71
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Avast did something similar on vista on a computer I was trying to fix 
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Dutch_Master
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Who in his right mind will ever use M$ crap anyway?  |
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leke
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Didn't you know? Black is the new blue  |
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roseway
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| leke wrote: | | Didn't you know? Black is the new blue |
I already made that joke on the Debian forum. Now I'll have to consult my legal advisers and sue you for a billion dollars. 
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towy71
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| roseway wrote: | | I already made that joke on the Debian forum. Now I'll have to consult my legal advisers and sue you for a billion dollars. |
the source code for that gag is gpl'd so don't waste your money
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| roseway wrote: | | leke wrote: | | Didn't you know? Black is the new blue |
I already made that joke on the Debian forum. Now I'll have to consult my legal advisers and sue you for a billion dollars. |
I thought the required amount was bajillion?
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The truth is out! 
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<sits, waiting for somebody to post the real, if rather less amusing, truth>
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| Well it is now being claimed (by MS of course) that the root cause was probably malware, such as Daonol, and not MS's own November security updates at all. Who knows? !! |
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