Hi all,
I've spent a long time trying to work this out and I can't get any further without help. Thank you for reading and trying to help.
Problem started:
..I was playing Anno 1800 and the graphics went all pixelated so you couldn't see anything other than massive streaks across the screen and black space with everything frozen including mouse etc
..restarted by pressing main button
..half dozen times or so I could boot and then get Anno loaded but it would crash to desktop right on loading the game into the playing mode graphics/audio
..then it started doing this DPC watchdog violation error
..then it stopped booting and giving the same DPC watchdog violation error at the start of the boot sequence before it made it to the windows login screen
..I disconnected two extra and different RAM sticks and took them out and same problem
..then took out video card
..was able to get to safe mode windows during booting sequence
..then reconnected only the video card and could get into safe mode again during boot sequence
..other than safe mode it would do DPC watchdog error 100% of the time
..now I can't get into safe mode because the prompt isn't coming up saying automatically repairing etc which let me get to safe mode
..so I can't get to safe mode now and 100% of the time it gives a DPC watchdog error during the early boot sequence before the windows login screen
Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated even if it's just a random idea of what I could do. I was trying to check and update video drivers next now that I plugged in an ethernet cable for the internet connection since wifi didn't work in safe mode.
Thank you!
I've spent a long time trying to work this out and I can't get any further without help. Thank you for reading and trying to help.
Problem started:
..I was playing Anno 1800 and the graphics went all pixelated so you couldn't see anything other than massive streaks across the screen and black space with everything frozen including mouse etc
..restarted by pressing main button
..half dozen times or so I could boot and then get Anno loaded but it would crash to desktop right on loading the game into the playing mode graphics/audio
..then it started doing this DPC watchdog violation error
..then it stopped booting and giving the same DPC watchdog violation error at the start of the boot sequence before it made it to the windows login screen
..I disconnected two extra and different RAM sticks and took them out and same problem
..then took out video card
..was able to get to safe mode windows during booting sequence
..then reconnected only the video card and could get into safe mode again during boot sequence
..other than safe mode it would do DPC watchdog error 100% of the time
..now I can't get into safe mode because the prompt isn't coming up saying automatically repairing etc which let me get to safe mode
..so I can't get to safe mode now and 100% of the time it gives a DPC watchdog error during the early boot sequence before the windows login screen
Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated even if it's just a random idea of what I could do. I was trying to check and update video drivers next now that I plugged in an ethernet cable for the internet connection since wifi didn't work in safe mode.
Thank you!