Windows 8.1 blank screen

HI All
Wondering if anyone has experienced this issue before during the deploying if a windows 8.1 image, after the first reboot (image deployment + drivers) the machine boots into a completely blank
(black) screen
Have tried with and without drivers, 32 and 64 bit vanilla windows same each time, windows 7 however works fine
Works fine from MDT
Any ideas
Many thanks
Chris

Peter basically said the same issue I was going to report. After our R2 upgrade, we basically had to switch to a x64 boot image because of suspected issues with DISM on WinPE 5.0 x86. We still have a case open with Microsoft.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/10d60acd-dcb4-4e71-86bb-b8181c553e2e/problems-deploying-windows-7-x64-computers-with-more-than-8gb-ram?forum=configmanagerosd
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