Windows 8 Developer Preview (Build 8102) fails to boot on VMware Workstation Player 15

Diego Chávez 6 Reputation points
2020-09-13T17:30:31.203+00:00

Ok so for the past 2 days i have been trying to install Win8 DevPreview (Build 8102 to be specific) and the first time I tried to boot from the .iso file, I got the error message saying "Your computer needs to restart ,Error code: 24284-img-5988.jpg0x0000001E", which I think means IRQL_not_less_or_equal, and I thought that maybe the ISO was corrupted or had bad files, so I went to archive.org to see if the iso was good from there, but it was the same, then I thought I should play around with the VM settings, the hint that appeared the first time said that a fault occurred which led to the virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state, so I thought I increased the virtual CPU cores, since it was set to 1 core, and I think Windows 8 requires a dual-core CPU,so I increased it to 3 cores, but still I got the same error, so can someone please help me? In case you don´t believe me, here´s a photo of that happening

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  1. Molly Lu 596 Reputation points
    2020-09-14T02:43:56.69+00:00

    Hi @Diego Chávez ,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A.

    According to my research, the Bug Check 0x1E: KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED indicates that a kernel-mode program generated an exception that the error handler did not catch.
    You can refer to the link below:
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/bug-check-0x1e--kmode-exception-not-handled

    Try following methods for troubleshooting
    1 . You can use the tools on this page to create your own installation media using either a USB flash drive or a DVD.
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8ISO

    2 . Try reduce the number of CPU core to 1 and restart.

    3 . Force the machine to reboot --> keep pressing F8 --> into Advanced Boot Options --> select Safe Mode to see if you can access the system.
    If safe mode fails, try Last Known Good Configuration.
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    4 . Run startrep.exe and SFC.exe in command prompt
    Go to x:\sources\recovery.
    Run startrep.exe
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    Best regards,
    Molly

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  2. Diego Chávez 6 Reputation points
    2020-09-13T17:32:09.273+00:00

    24302-img-5988.jpg

    Im sorry that I posted the photo incomplete in the post, anyways here is the complete one

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  3. mirh 1 Reputation point
    2022-11-23T02:04:34+00:00 
    virtualHW.version = "9"

    Put this in your vmx and you are good.