For those that are unaware, KSOD means blacK Screen of Death. Essentially, when windows starts my computer shows only the cursor and a black screen. It seems like any and all shell elements are disabled (or perhaps not started). I have seen a number of these questions asked, none of which have matched my situation.

1. CTRL + ALT + ... does not respond
2. Restarting in safe mode, results in the same KSOD
3. sfc /scannow seems to have no effect when typed at the command prompt that is accessed using the recovery tools via the install disk

Update to item 3:

sfc /scannow reports: There is a system repair pending which requires reboot to complete. Restart Windows and run sfc again.

However, Windows does not restart past KSOD.

Update to item 3 as per Soandos comment re: /offbootdir

sfc /scannow /offbotdir=e:\ /windir=e:\windows

"Windows resource protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. Details are included in the CBS.log..."