However, more often than not the boot screen will inform the user of the missing file.
Often the user must reinstall Windows, if the missing file is critical to the boot process. This also happens when the user enables file compression on all files and the operating system compresses. MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 also display a Black Screen of Death when the operating system cannot boot. He reports that the company was rolling out Windows 3.0 within the Global Marketing group and when the users would attempt to run WordPerfect, they would receive a black screen. The following files were also updated, vtdapi.386re.386 and vipx.38id-1991 by Ed Brown, a technician with the Coca-Cola Company's IT department in Atlanta, GA. The issue was fixed in most instances by adding an additional section in the SYSTEM.INI of affected clients with the text TimerCriticalSection = 10000.
(Commonly, but not exclusively, it was seen while the Novell NetWare client for DOS, NETX, was loaded.).
It was often known to occur in connection with attempting certain operations while networking drivers were resident in memory. In Windows 3.x the black screen of death is the behavior that occurred when a DOS-based application failed to execute properly. An example of an EMM386 Error Message in Windows 3.0 that results in a black screen during Standard Mode.
