DPC Watchdog Violation Windows 8 [SOLVED]

Anonymous
2013-03-18T16:22:08+00:00

Hello!

Time to time I get the DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. Moustly when i play games. I use laptop Asus n56vz and SSD OCZ Vector 512 GB . I've tried updating all drivers, BIOS, and SSD Firmware, but i am still getting the error.  I used NOD32 Antivirus i unistalled it but still have this error.

Here is the C:\Windows\Minidump:

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=E828D84DFAA824B6!147&authkey=!ADvi_ktAtwgPGMg

Thank you for your help.

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Anonymous
2013-04-06T09:34:46+00:00

I think the issue can be counted as solved now. No more BSODs after installing NVIDIA driver from laptop vendor ASUS. 

Thank you all for help.

I hope this thread will help to other people too.

I can't mark my Answer - as the Answer for the Question. So i only renamed the 1st post.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-02-07T18:56:12+00:00

    Definitely not the answer for me.

    I am totally up-to-date with Nvidia, I do not have an asus laptop and I was not playing games...

    But I am having constant problems with Mozilla Firefox, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was something not going right there.

    Frankly, Windows 8 is software manure and a BIG step back from Windows 7. Every day something is incompatible with something else.

    Microsoft should be shamefully embarrassed to have released something with so many glitches.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-01-22T14:21:41+00:00

    Hi Uri,

    The error points to the athw8x.sys which is the Atheros wireless driver so try updating that driver.

    If the error persists I would suggest to start a new topic to get the best help and to avoid confusion with this old topic.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-01-22T09:50:25+00:00

    Went to graphics card manufacturer website and downloaded and installed latest driver as well as running windows update. Problem seems to be solved

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-01-21T16:26:45+00:00

    I have the same problem. Brand new DELL computer, first thing I did was to update from Windows 8 to 8.1 and one of my devices won't show up, tried to scan for new device and getting that blue screen... Attached the DMP file... Help?

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/7dmwue71pyuyd56/012114-12328-01.dmp

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