What does DCP watchdog violation mean?

Installed Windows with Bootcamp. It was successful, until this message came:


Stoppkod DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION


What does it mean or what have I done?

Björn Forseths MacBook Air 11"

Posted on Sep 4, 2021 1:04 AM

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Posted on Sep 22, 2021 2:08 AM

I do hope you got my file via e-mail.


Since then:


I told my problem for the manufacturer of the SSD and got this answer:


Thank you for getting back to me, I really appreciate it! Regrettably your model MacBook Air 6,1 is not compatible with Windows/BootCamp. We state it on our site of the SSD on the main product page:

 

Note: Not compatible with Apple Boot Camp when installed in the following hosts: MacBookPro11,1; MacBookAir6,1; MacBookAir6,2; iMac15,1 (Late 2014); iMac18,2; iMac18,3; iMac19,1; iMac19,2


If you have anymore questions, comments or concerns please reply to this email and I'll gladly assist you further!


Thank you for contacting OWC, have a great day!

Sincerely,

Cicely B.

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Sep 9, 2021 7:53 AM in response to Loner T

Hm, Bootcamp wanted a lot of things – I used wifi to the internet,


WININSTALL as a USB with the whole Windows 10 and with 21 GB free space,


FORSETH-16G is a e-fat USB with 12 GB free,


The 2 GB stick is only a Y-front crossing (USB in there directions), since I hadn't more than a couple USB ports. One port is normally connected with an ethernet adapter, which I forgot in the mess.


Shall I disconnect all the three of them? And the: try to install Windows again? From what? Not from the stick, then.


Or will Bootcamp accept the already installed Windows on the partition?

Sep 25, 2021 11:59 AM in response to Giron-Kiruna__

Giron/Kiruna wrote:

Now I followed you distinctly, but I wanted to erase my first Windows, even if it didn't-t work as it should. This was not done, I couldn't find out how.

To delete the VirtualBox VM, you can use Machine -> Remove.

To remove the failed Bootcamp partition/installation, you can use Remove Windows from your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support.

So I did New Windows instead and was stopped on my product key. I have that nearby, so I didn't write it wrongly. Microsoft has probably registered my failed attempt; my produce key was alright then, I think.

During the installation of the W10, if you select 'I do not have a Product Key', you can still install W10, and test for 30 days. If you entered it correctly the second time, Microsoft will ignore the previous failed attempts. You should be fine.


Please test TitleVision and report any issues and we can try to address them. I am glad to see progress.

Sep 4, 2021 7:07 AM in response to Loner T

  Year? Where can Ifind that?


Modellnamn: MacBook Air


  Modellidentifierare: MacBookAir6,1


  Processornamn: Dual-Core Intel Core i7


  Processorhastighet: 1,7 GHz


  Antal processorer: 1


  Totalt antal kärnor: 2


  L2-cache (per kärna): 256 K


  L3-cache: 4 MB


  Flertrådsteknik: Aktiverad


  Minne: 8 GB


  Boot ROM-version: 429.0.0.0.0


  SMC-version (system): 2.12f143


  Serienummer (system): C0*****5YW


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Sep 4, 2021 9:18 AM in response to Loner T

Yes. I seemed to have done everything correctly – a partition for Windows was made and the ordinary content was still here outside that partition, which was full of pc contents. But the last thing was that message: "Stoppkod DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION".


What violation was that? Was it, that I chose the wrong version (Pro instead of Home).


I saw nothing else than erasing everything and start again. I didn't get the question Home or Pro again, though.


Unfortunately… I now had an errand many hours outside the city. I left the installation on its las picture, where it says "do not stop or restart", but I forgot that the system will stop the disk, when resting. Now, having come back home, the same picture is still there (see enclosed).

Sep 7, 2021 10:18 AM in response to Loner T

I have chatted with both the Apple and the Microsoft chats. None understands what has happened. Microsoft could explain the stop code for me, but what had happened, they couldn't tell. They seemed totally unaware of Bootcamp's existence, thought it was a third party app.


But The Apple chat was equally disoriented on what could have happened.


My disk is an 1 tb SSD called OWC Aura Pro X2. It is divided into two disks, where one of them has the ending "– data". My deliverer says that is an anomaly. I should erase the disk and format it as only one disk. But before the crash, my hard disk itself appeared as two after one of the many upgrades, and Windows worked as normal then.


I can very well test to erase the whole disk, but that makes me nervous. The whole Windows seems to be the in the partition Bootcamp. It should just start.

Sep 7, 2021 11:50 AM in response to Giron-Kiruna__

The '- data' is normal under macOS, it is an APFS Volume, not a separate disk. Here is an example.


 diskutil list 
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         616.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                384.2 GB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +616.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     402.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.3 GB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 82.6 MB    disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                529.0 MB   disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume VM                      31.1 GB    disk1s5


macOS will create volumes (not disks) as necessary. I would not recommend trying to manipulate these volumes as separate physical disks.


Can you post the output of


diskutil list


from macOS Terminal?

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