Windows 8 freezes on black screen after the computer resumes from sleep mode

This issue occurs because the $Secure file becomes corrupted. When the system tries to recover the corrupted $Secure file, the default permissions are set across all files on the system. However, the default permissions are insufficient to enable the remote procedure call (RPC) endpoint mapper service to start. Because the RPC is important to the operation of Windows, the system freezes when the RPC endpoint mapper service does not start.

Note The $Secure file is an NTFS internal metadata file that contains security permissions for the whole volume. The $Secure file can become corrupted if one of the lost write operations is related to writing permissions.

In Windows 8, some in-progress write operations are flushed to the disk incorrectly when the computer enters hybrid sleep mode. Data corruption in the file system or pagefile occurs when power to the system is lost. Depending on the progress of write operations, random data corruption may occur across the disk. 

Note This behavior is a regression in Windows 8 and does not occur in hybrid sleep scenarios on Windows 7.