You are aware of Blue Screen & Black Screen. Now read about Purple, Brown, Yellow, Red, Orange, White, Green Screen of Deaths in Windows.

Successor to the well-known Windows blue screen of death, the 'green ribbon of death' crashes Vista when the progress bar freezes an Explorer window. Here's why it happens and how to make it stop.

Microsoft’s most recent release of security patches is causing some computers to … display a, er, black screen of death. … [The] latest patches [are] causing havoc for some Windows fans ...

This is a specific function in Vista which effectively disables non genuine copies of Windows. Therefore, anyone who has a pirated copy of Vista will experience: A black screen after 1 hour of ...