windows 8.1 black screen

ok last night my pc at home done a set of updates on 8.1
reboot and black screen with cursor
wtf, anyway manage to ctrl+alt+delete and get to task manager, hold down shift while on task selection, move down to power button on bottom right and restart into recovery/troubleshooting all done keeping shift pushed down.
selected advanced, system restore & all back up and running.
got to work today & 4 new Systems had done exactly the same. systems only 24 hours old.
feking M/S updates for windows 8.1 suck..

Are they new installs? Could be a graphic driver conflict, you could have installed some drivers and windows update installed some others too.

See here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/...n-updates.html

after checking and removing graphics drivers, still no joy, came in today to find another 3 machines hit with it after m/s updates, 2 of them are laptops
cant pin point what update has done this. all are on 8.1, some on pro and one on 32bit.
head scratcher..

ok getting a bit further into this, i just did a system refresh, installed a/v & then did 75 updates, all fine, restarted pc, checked for updates, 3 important to do, all 3 where security updates,
installed them & what happens, the fekin thing is back to black screen with curser after restart,
M/S really pissing me off now

just updated all our stuff on win 8.1 and no issues.

can you tell me the 3 updates so I can check I have them bod

Very odd that you had the same problem again, thought they would pull the update. Is the hardware the same?

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Originally Posted by wakadoo

just updated all our stuff on win 8.1 and no issues.

can you tell me the 3 updates so I can check I have them bod

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will do, im back in work 2moro
@ Evilsatan, only 3 of the machine are identical..
now had 12 machines in total in the last 10 days.
2 of them are my own PC's(1 is high end 8 core gaming machine, New & the other a high spec machine)

this is the 3 updates that made one machine fall over twice.
http://i61.tinypic.com/286v4tu.jpg

Update for windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB3000850) installed on 18/12/2014

Update for windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB3003667) installed on 29/11/2014

I cannot find nor will it show up as needing installing the windows defender update on any pc lol

I am now worried as my last one was 1.175.963.0..


maybe malwarebytes and bitdefender are blocking it.

ah, action centre reports bitdefender firewall is running and I cant run 2 firewalls.

i had 2 more systems in today.

odd, does it seem to effect intel or amd systems.

onboard or external gfx card systems, NVidia or amd.

have you spotted a pattern yet.

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Originally Posted by wakadoo

odd, does it seem to effect intel or amd systems.

onboard or external gfx card systems, NVidia or amd.

have you spotted a pattern yet.

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no pattern, some amd some intel, some onboard gfx my has a gtx 760 2gb card.