Question BSOD Loop after Installing Windows 11 (Unsupported Hardware)

[JudithWright]

I have an Intel XEON E5-2680V3 and an X99 motherboard.

Installing Windows 10 seems to work without a problem.

But after installing Windows 11, the system runs for about 90 seconds and then goes into a BSOD Loop that shows a large variety of different errors:

Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart -
dpc watchdog violation
system service exception not handled
kernel mode heap corruption
fault page in nonpaged area

I have installed Windows 11 on unsupported hardware many times - and never seen issues like this.

What is most likely to be the cause?

 

[punkncat]

Not to be "smart" but the unsupported hardware aspect looms pretty large...

Did you keep a copy of the original release of W11, like the preview or very first edition, or download the newest?

Chances are high that even if you can get it to run it will just lead to problems later on either by way of inability TO update or a future update breaking it again. Use the system with supported software.

 

[JudithWright]

Not to be "smart" but the unsupported hardware aspect looms pretty large...

Yes, this was known in advance.

But I have installed Windows 11 on many systems that have even older hardware than this.

So I am just trying to learn about what might be causing this specific collection of error messages (when this was never occurring with any prior systems)

 

[BFG-9000]

Unsupported doesn't only mean Microsoft won't answer any questions if you have any problems.

It also means such a combination has never been tested before so congratulations, you are the alpha tester!

As most of us would lack the expertise to fix the issue even if we could isolate the problem, and wouldn't want to re-fix it every 6 months whenever a version update to Windows 11 comes out, I expect most of us would just not use Win 11 on such a system.

FWIW, Win 11 has worked flawlessly on every S771 Xeon I've tried it on, even when such a Xeon is adapted to fit into S775. That's got to be an even more obscure platform and luckily it just plain works.

 

[Colif]

Can you follow option one on the following link - here - and then do this step below: Small memory dumps - Have Windows Create a Small Memory Dump (Minidump) on BSOD - that creates a file in c windows/minidump after the next BSOD

1. Open Windows File Explore
   
2. Navigate to C:\Windows\Minidump
   
3. Copy the mini-dump files out onto your Desktop
   
4. Do not use Winzip, use the built in facility in Windows
   
5. Select those files on your Desktop, right click them and choose 'Send to' - Compressed (zipped) folder
   
6. Upload the zip file to the Cloud (OneDrive, DropBox . . . etc.)
   
7. Then post a link here to the zip file, so we can take a look for you . . .
   

dpc watchdog violation

can i go back a year or so and Delete that BSOD out of the list of possible ones, as I seen it too much this year.