I installed "Visual Studio 2012 Express Desktop" on my "Windows 8 Pro". The installer succeeded and told me to restart the system. I obeyed.
Now the system hangs somewhere in the bootprocess and my eyes won't stop bleeding while looking at the dancing little dots (aka the "wait" animation).
After 2 resets the automatic recovery triggered and Windows 8 healed itself. Windows 8 booted again, I was able to login. I tried to launch Visual Studio, but some .dll was missing. I repeaired the installation via the installer. The installer succeeded and told me to restart the system. I obeyed, again.
And, again, now my eyes bleed again while looking at the dancing dots.
What is the problem? What is the best way to diagnose this?
Update: Maybe related, after the 2nd restore I get some 'COM surrogate crashed' messages from the picture viewer. And the "remove programs" panel takes ages to load.
Update2: After several cleanups / recovery / reinstall etc: VStudio now works. Boot-hanging might be coincidence and not corelation. I vote for closing this question, might be usefull for others in terms of 'it was asked but can't be answered'.
Best Answer
There is a known issue with the Gigabyte motherboard, caused by an incompatibility of its on board USB3 controller.
See the last tip in the info below, from the emulator faq:
Problem: Installation of the SDK causes Windows 8 to fail to reboot.
This item is included in this troubleshooter because there is a known issue with Hyper-V interacting with third party software, and Hyper-V is used by the Emulator.
When this happens, restore your system by using the F8 option at reboot and choose the last known good OS instance.
One possible root cause of this is if you are using a Gigabyte motherboard’s USB3 controller.
More information: Boot failure after installation of Hyper-V role on Gigabyte systems
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wptools/thread/75251ed8-22a3-4387-bfed-94bd2aa8c6ac