BSOD Watchdog Violation installing Windows Updates

So...my brand new laptop is failing to update Windows 8, continually giving me a DPC Watchdog Violation. I have no idea why (or what that even means!). I'm not particularly tech savvy. A quick Google brought me here, I'm still unsure what I'm dealing with, but hopefully someone here can help/guide me through the issue?

I have read the BSOD posting instructions and uploaded the the debugging zip below. The laptop is an HP Pavilion 15-p144na and was new out of the box last night. Spec:

Windows 8 x64
AMD A8
8GM RAM
AMD Radeon 7

I uninstalled some pre-installed bloat, like Wild Tangent Games and CyberLink YouCam, etc. All I have subsequently installed is Chrome, Malwarebytes and HTC Sync Manager (to get a driver to tether my HTC One; have then removed the Sync Manager immediately after). Having done all this I attempted to update Windows at 8:20pm and had issues with it crashing three or four times up until 2:45am when I gave up, frustrated, and went to bed.

Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks.

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Aaahhh, was trying so hard to get it all right first time. Fail. I have updated my system specs, hopefully they are sufficient now?

I had my HTC One plugged in. Could this be the culprit? Part of my search on the issue said something about SSD, and I was thinking this laptop doesn't have one! But then the HTC is...

The crashes are blaming a driver of windows that is used for the USB.
This could mean 2 things

1. There is a problem with the connection port
2. There is another 3rd party driver causing problems, in a lot of cases when a windows driver is blamed a 3rd party driver is actually causing the issue.

Please try to connect a peripheral that you know should work without any problem, if you then have a crash the culprit is the connection port.
If you're not having a crash, then you can give the drivers a test to find out which driver is causing problems.
To test the drivers, you'll need the program driver verifier (built-in feature).