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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    Turns out it was a driver incompatibility with Windows 8.1.
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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    They got back to me with a new beta driver. I installed it but now I'm getting problems with the rear usb ports - they aren't functioning, and under device manager Intel Management Engine Interface is yellow exclamation marked, as is an entry for Unknown USB Device under USB Controllers.. When...
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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    Thanks, I shot them an email since they don't have any drivers archived. We're also going to try reverting to Windows 7 if this won't work. You'd think by now people would have caught up with Windows 8, oh well!
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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    It's the Osprey drivers! They're causing the issue. Wow. I'll follow it up with those guys directly and see if they have a solution for this issue..
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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    Honestly I reiterated it because I wasn't sure if I did it properly. I used a Win 98 image to boot from my usb stick and then I tried running the bios files and I got errors. I shouldn't have had to do anything before then, right? Like replace the cmos battery or anything like that?
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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    I'm going to try that now - but I need a bit of help with something first... My BIOS. I'd like to update it, but the only way to do it is by flashing, and I tried all of the ones from the foxconn website and they both gave me the errors I detailed. Is it just a lost cause to try and flash the...
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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    So at first I didn't have the issue, I installed every single update and patched to 8.1 and installed more updates, I shut down and started up five to ten times and it was perfectly fine, I just installed four applications - Filezilla, Flash Media Live Encoder, Chrome, and the drivers for our...
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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    Hi Eduello, it seems to have been an issue with the OS - the disc we used must have been temperamental because all of the PCs we used with it reported the same issue. After reinstalling with a different copy so far everything is good. I won't resolve this thread yet until I do more testing...
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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    The motherboard is a Foxconn H61MXL-K, I just downloaded the latest bios and I got three folders - DOS Image, MEBIOS, and SYSBIOS, I formatted my 16GB Flash Drive to Fat32 and used Win98Boot instead of the DOS Image, since I can't format the drive to FAT, only FAT32. I booted into it and ran the...
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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    Sorry for the lack of hardware information, they have onboard graphics, and I installed the drivers for it from the manufacturer's website. GPU, Sound, LAN, Chipset, Bios, were all I installed from the website.
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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    I ran a dxdiag and found out that the motherboard is a FOXCONN model, so I downloaded all the appropriate drivers for it and installed them, and let Windows do the rest. This included chipset and bios. The fact that these computers were working before and aren't working now is odd to me, it must...
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    Two Identical PCs, faulting at startup

    Hi there, I have two identical Advent branded computers, they both have Windows 8.1 fully updated, they're used as encoders around the office and recently they were wiped, switched to Windows 7, wiped again, and put back to 8.1, and now they started having issues booting up. Sometimes they'll...