I use an Asus X200MA with Ubuntu 14.04 and have had the same issue i.e. a black screen since the update from 3.13.0-40 to 3.13.0-45. The update to 3.13.0-46 didn't help so I'm back to using 3.13.0-40.
I tried Christopher Penalver's suggestion and upgraded the BIOS to the latest version 504 (from November 2014). With 3.13.0-46 this results in an initially scrambled screen that slowly becomes a white screen after a minute or so. I can still use 3.13.0-40. Here's the requested output of sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date: X200MA.504 11/13/2014 Thanks a lot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1416849 Title: Booted into blank screen after the security update To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1416849/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs