Windows 8 Freezing

quotidian · 5 Sep 2012 at 19:56

My Windows 8 Preview freezes soon after I boot it up and won't respond even to toggling caps lock?

Its a fresh install but its freezing so quickly that I can't download any updates incase its a bug?

theheyes · 5 Sep 2012 at 20:29

What CPU do you have?

quotidian · 5 Sep 2012 at 20:29

I managed to get into safe mode with networking, however when I tried to connect to the network to install the updates the machine froze and came up with a BSOD? (Think its the new windows 8 styled BSOD)

It says MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION

quotidian · 5 Sep 2012 at 20:30

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theheyes · 5 Sep 2012 at 20:37

There is a bug with Ivybridge that was fixed, but I've not known it to throw a bsod. Is it a new build? What was it running before?

prescott28 · 5 Sep 2012 at 20:42

Did you install the motherboard drivers from your motherboard DVD? Windows doesn't know about the Ivybridge motherboards as far as I can tell. I can't even get a network without that!

quotidian · 5 Sep 2012 at 20:53

prescott28 said:
Did you install the motherboard drivers from your motherboard DVD? Windows doesn't know about the Ivybridge motherboards as far as I can tell. I can't even get a network without that!

Sorry for being so stupid but how do I do that?

prescott28 · 5 Sep 2012 at 20:56

quotidian said:
Sorry for being so stupid but how do I do that?

you ought to have received a drivers disk with the motherboard as these new motherboards are not yet supported under Windows.

quotidian · 5 Sep 2012 at 20:58

prescott28 said:
you ought to have received a drivers disk with the motherboard as these new motherboards are not yet supported under Windows.

Just boot into safe mode and then put it into the cd drive and run it?

quotidian · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:13

Got into safe mode and went to run the chipset install and it just opens a pop up saying "Xpress install does not support this version of windows"

quotidian · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:14

Is this what I need?

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/MO...el-Chipset-Driver-9301021-for-Windows-8.shtml

quotidian · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:20

Ok, crosses fingers, I think that worked it came up a command prompt like inset window and showed it successfully installing the drivers.

prescott28 · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:51

I think I would have gone to the Gigabyte site for the drivers but that looks like the right thing. let us know if it helped.

quotidian · 5 Sep 2012 at 22:01

I think I'm going ok now, no crashes or freezes, just got a couple of update errors but they should be ok to fix, nothing too major.

hyperst · 5 Sep 2012 at 22:34

ASUS has been releasing BIOS updates to support windows 8, maybe worth a check.

prescott28 · 6 Sep 2012 at 09:26

I'll check Asus out then - may as well have the latest drivers