Hey all. Just built a new comp and at first put Win 7 on it but now want to use Win 8 RTM. It ran fine with 7, no issue at all. Now trying to do a clean install of Win 8 it blue screens and gives me the Watchdog error before it installs. 

System info:

Intel BOXDZGA70K LGA 1155 Z77 Motherboard

Quad-Core i7 Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz

AMD FirePro V4900 Video Card

180GB SSD SATA III

1TB HHD SATA

32GB DDR3 SDRAM

I can provide more system info if needed. The only thing I can think of is a driver issue. If that is the case should I reinstall 7 and do an upgrade install to 8 instead?

Thanks in advance!

Well went the upgrade route and it worked. It's not the way I would have liked or expected. If I didn't have Windows 7 I would still be stuck. Clean install worked for other machines so I would still appreciate any thoughts on this.

Just a wild guess here, but what happens if you have only one drive connected?

I've had problems installing Windows on systems with multiple SATA drives ever since Windows started supporting SATA.

Ha first thing I tried! Didn't work. Thanks

Can you help me ?

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