It appears that PC makers and driver writers have yet to nail it.
Bob
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Three weeks ago I ended up having a machine that would consistently hang and not turn off. I had recently upgraded to W8.1. Before then I'd had over a year's activity with no problems. Failure occurred while editing music files using CDWave. Which means I can loose up to 40 mins of editing work. Probably a few gigs of memory being used.
Asus P8-Z77-U MB, Samsung 128 840pro C: drive
SSD is good and latest firm ware upgrades. 8g checked out memory.
Ended up using a different SSD, and reloaded W8, added all the applications - big pain (data on different hard disk). Working fine.
Three days ago upgraded to W8.1 and 24 hours later got DPC-WATCHDOG-VIOLATION along with the blue screen and resets while copying a large file to RAID storage.
We are again going through all of the Internet fixes including drivers and other suggestions.
W8.1 also stopped a few other free utilities from working such as DriverMender and Spyhunter. As soon as I get this problem figured out, I'll publish what we did. Currently it looks like W8.1 doesn't like the video card (Cyber Power Giga Bite HD7850), the Realtech Audio, nor the Mother board chipset drivers I am using. I'll spend time next week with their tech support to see if I can get a resolution.
I am currently definitely not a W8.1 advocate.
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