I been trying to install Windows 8.1 on my desktop custom build for a month and a half. I purchased a Giagbyte 78LMT-USB3 motherboard with an AMDFX-4103 processor and a 4 GB stick of Patriot DDR3 RAM. I purchased a Crucial M500 SSD and also a new 700 Watt Rosewill PSU. I also have 2 other HDDs, a 2 TB WD Green drive and a 360 GB Samsung drive from an old HP computer that died.
I tried to install to the SSD, and I did get it fully installed once. However, I received BSODs within a minute of boot. Many different codes, DVP WATCHDOG VIOLATION, NFTS FILESYSTEM, MEMORY MANAGEMENT, plus others too numerous to remember. I updated the MB BIOS with my flash drive, didn't seem to help. I tried to update the MB Drivers but it would always bluescreen before I could do anything.
So I decided to re-install Windows. I tried several times and received several BSODs during the setup itself. I received a CACHE MANAGER BSOD, NTFS FILESYSTEM BSOD and several BSODs without any specific problem listed. I updated the SSD firmware to the latest version, March 25,2014, and still got BSODs on all install attempts. I then decided to attempt to install on my HDD. I attempted to install on the Samsung drive and received several more of afore mentioned BSODs. I have yet to get Windows 8.1 installed to a point where it runs more than 1 minute without a BSOD. Right now I can't even get it to install.
I don't have any dump files to upload since it BSODs during the install attempts. Not sure where to go from here.
Edit: I also ran MemTest on it for 4 passes and it came back with 0 errors.
