Vistaar & others check out this Askwoody forum topic:
Hi erpster4:
I posted some comments in
reply # 2295699 in Cybertooth's AskWoody.com thread but they've performed a system restore on that desktop machine so many times I can't follow what Win Server 2008 updates are still installed - or what hardware components / anitvirus program that machine has. If I recall correctly Cybertooth owns two Vista SP2 machines - 1 desktop and 1 laptop - and they had a similar black screen issue on that same desktop machine back in June 2019 when they applied the May 2019 KB4499149 (monthly rollup) or KB4499180 (security only) update to patch the Bluekeep exploit vulnerability that changed their build to 6.0.6003 (see Cybertooth's comments in the AskWoody thread
Are Bluekeep Patches Causing BSODs With Server 2008 SP2 and Vista?) At the time Cybertooth mentioned that both Vista SP2 machines had Norton 360 installed and that the problem desktop machine had a NVIDIA graphics card. Their Vista SP2 laptop that does not have a discrete graphics card and uses the integrated Intel graphics drivers did not boot to a black screen when the Bluekeep patch was applied and the build changed to 6.0.6003 - and according to their 12-Sep-2020
post # 2295735, this laptop still boots normally when the Servicing Stack Updates and KB4474419 patch to add SHA-2 support are installed - but who knows what other differences there are between their two machines.
I'm even wondering now if v6.0.6003.x versions of files like the
Driver Store API drvstore.dll that come bundled with Servicing Stack Updates like
KB4493730 (the Win Server 2008 SSU from April 2019) could be contributing to Cybertooth's black screens.
It looks like Vistaar has decided to pursue this over in the MSFN forum in
Windows Update Error Code 80072EFD where he posts as user Vistapocalypse. He's already stated that "
lmacri tends to exaggerate the problems encountered by those of us who are actually running Windows 6.0.6003" when I mentioned that the change to Build 6.0.6003 could be causing black screens at boot-up on some Vista SP2 machines (see his comment <
here> as user Abzyx in the BleepingComputer forum) so I'm eager to hear what the root cause of this problem actually is if Cybertooth's black screen has nothing to do with their
graphics drivers and/or the
Microsoft Graphics Components that come bundled with some Win Server 2008 updates.
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32-bit Vista Home Premium SP2 * Firefox ESR v52.9.0 * Malwarebytes FrePremium v3.5.1-1.0.365
HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS