Windows update borking brand new server 3 times in a row...

Hello all,
here's an interesting one for you all.
our company recently deployed a new server.
server 2012 r2
configuration
setup
all worked correctly
after all was done, updates were installed, afterwards the server would have a black screen of death over rdp and a slew of issues locally.
tried to remotely deploy http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2897632 which was supposed to address this.
no go...
since this already happened 3 times in a row i'm not quite sure how to go about this apart from disabling updates or excluding the problematic one. alas not sure which one it is.
what should the next course of action be? restore backups or re-image are fruitless since the same update will render it bad all over again.

That is not a scripted answer. It might be that you have a driver that is not compatible with recent Windows Updates which might cause that: That is why I have made the previous suggestion.
I never heard about black screen issue after the one fixed by KB2897632. My recommendation would be to check with your server support if they have known compatibility problems for Windows Server 2012 R2 running on their hardware.
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