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I have a custom-built PC with an Asus P5Q Pro mobo, Intel Q9550 Quad CPU, 8 GB Ram, Asus Radeon HD 4870 graphics card -- single monitor, with nearly 400 GB of hard drive free space running Windows 7 Professional sp 1 64-bit.
I ran the Windows 8 Upgrade Assessment tool and other than telling me that I would need to get a DVD player and my gadgets would no longer be available it did not identify any issues. I clicked next and it suggested I upgrade to Windows 8 Pro. I clicked next and purchased the upgrade and downloaded the install file. That was the last thing that worked.
It goes through the installation without incident until it gets to 65% of setting up devices. Then it says that it encountered an issue that prevents a successful installation, suggests that I research DPC_Watchdog_Violation, reboots and rolls back to Windows 7. I can find nothing that approximates a setup log file that would give me any more information about what the issue was. If you google DPC Watchdog Violation it doesn't take long to see that it's a very common thing and the only thread that was marked as "solved" didn't say what the solution was.
After trying a few things suggested by some folks on the Tom's Hardware forum, including trying a completely different graphics card, I gave up and called the Microsoft Answer Desk. A guy spent an entire day uninstalling things like Norton, non-MS browsers etc and having me disconnect all attached devices. It never changed a thing. 65% and boom, roll back. Every time, no matter what he did.
He then escalated to a more technical support tech who spent the next day doing essentially the same as the first guy did but also uninstalling devices and using Revo Uninstaller to clean my PC of just about all of it's apps. Still, not one iota of difference. 65% and boom, roll back. Both of these guys lamented the lack of a log file that would give them any information about what the issue was.
They ran out of spit and ended by telling me that it was a common problem and that lots of people were experiencing it and they expected a fix from MS just about any time.
So I was surprised to not find any threads here describing a similar issue. I looked in the general discussion areas as well as here and if others are experiencing this same problem then I must have missed it.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Especially anyone that knows how to fix it?
Very frustrating...
I ran the Windows 8 Upgrade Assessment tool and other than telling me that I would need to get a DVD player and my gadgets would no longer be available it did not identify any issues. I clicked next and it suggested I upgrade to Windows 8 Pro. I clicked next and purchased the upgrade and downloaded the install file. That was the last thing that worked.
It goes through the installation without incident until it gets to 65% of setting up devices. Then it says that it encountered an issue that prevents a successful installation, suggests that I research DPC_Watchdog_Violation, reboots and rolls back to Windows 7. I can find nothing that approximates a setup log file that would give me any more information about what the issue was. If you google DPC Watchdog Violation it doesn't take long to see that it's a very common thing and the only thread that was marked as "solved" didn't say what the solution was.
After trying a few things suggested by some folks on the Tom's Hardware forum, including trying a completely different graphics card, I gave up and called the Microsoft Answer Desk. A guy spent an entire day uninstalling things like Norton, non-MS browsers etc and having me disconnect all attached devices. It never changed a thing. 65% and boom, roll back. Every time, no matter what he did.
He then escalated to a more technical support tech who spent the next day doing essentially the same as the first guy did but also uninstalling devices and using Revo Uninstaller to clean my PC of just about all of it's apps. Still, not one iota of difference. 65% and boom, roll back. Both of these guys lamented the lack of a log file that would give them any information about what the issue was.
They ran out of spit and ended by telling me that it was a common problem and that lots of people were experiencing it and they expected a fix from MS just about any time.
So I was surprised to not find any threads here describing a similar issue. I looked in the general discussion areas as well as here and if others are experiencing this same problem then I must have missed it.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Especially anyone that knows how to fix it?
Very frustrating...
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