Why WINDOWS 8.1 won't install/load on PC where WIN 8 runs Fine ?

Why WINDOWS 8.1 won't install/load on PC where WIN 8 runs Fine ?
As far as System Requirements go, they are the same for WIN 8 and WIN 8.1
Sympton:
Windows 8.1 Installation DVD loads for some time, no circle of dots, then PC reboots
with quick flash of six lines or so of white text (on black backgound) @ 106 seconds
Needed to use Smart Phone video camera to capture
Your PC needs to restart.
Please hold down the power button ...
Error Code:0x000000C4
Parameters:
0x000...91
0x000... F
0xFFFFF800699C5A80
0x00000000000000000
0x00000000000000001
Presumably message is intended for frozen PC, hence 'hold down power button'
In this case it flashes and re-boots
Windows 8.1 Image loads quickly, flash and reboots PC, having corrupted boot entry
(thankfully not other entries in Boot Manager situated on Dell System Reserved Partition)
PC Desktops affected:
Dimension 5000 - shipped JAN'05
RAM 4GB
Intel Pentium 4 640 3.20Ghz 64bit NX enabled
ATI Radeon HD 6450
Dimension 5150c/XPS 200 -shipped MAR'05
RAM 3GB
Intel Pentium D 820 2.80Ghz 64bit NX enabled
Intel 82945G WDDM 1.0
Both the above PC's Install and run Windows 8 without a hiccup
Another 'ancient' machine, but unaffected:
Precision 490 Desktop - shipped OCT'07
RAM 4GB
2 x XEON 5365 3.0Ghz
ATI HD 6450 (Now HD 7750)
All 8.0 & 8.1 clean Installs and Upgrades on this platform had no problems
Hope some of you can throw some light on this. What does WIN 8.1 do in the boot
process that WIN 8 does not?
And if anybody has encounterd this before...
Note to multi booters - keep or reinstall Dell or other System Reserved partition (PRI,Active)
EasyBCD/Windows Boot Manager held on this partition (eg. 350MB)
If it gets corrupted, you can Restore it, rather than Gigabytes of 1st Primary O/S
Also, it will solve a lot of problems, when manipulating/adding/backing up/restoring O/S's
That's it, happy computing...
Dell Precision 490 Desktop Intel XEON X5365 (Quadcore) x 2 Chipset X5000 321x/3221ESB Southbridge AMD Radeon HD7750 HDD ST3000DM001 3TB HDD ST2000DM001 2TB SSD OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD OCZ Vector3 128GB x2 RAID 0 Offline WD10EALX 1TB Barracuda 7200.10 250GB
USB 3.0 WD MyBook 1230 3TB USB 3.0 WD MyBook 1130 2TB

Fellow user from St. Louis, Missouri pointed in the right direction. I'm grateful
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Running upgrade assistant (going to Store rejects CPU, but no details)
Results in:
X You can't install Windows 8.1 because your processor doesn't support LAHF/SAHF.
X You can't install Windows 8.1 because your processor doesn't support PrefetchW.
There are at least three Processor requirements that M'soft does not list for WIN 8.1
and it's fairly well documented, if you ask the right question, eg.:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2058683/new-windows-8-1-requirements-strand-some-users-on-windows-8.html
So that's it, exclusion by 'stealth' - at least M'soft told you that processor required NX - Execute Disable Bit
for Windows 8
For Intel units, look out for 'VT-x. Have a processor on the way, but will Motherboard pass CMPXCHG16b test?
AND PrefetchW AND LAHF/SAHF
Windows 8 support ends 2015, that means people who bought it will have had 2 years use
WIN 8.1 Upgrade/Update (sic) is free, but costly if it won't run on your machine
So, those many people who decried Windows 8 and stuck to WIN 7, were right after all
Early supporters of WIN 8, have been 'betrayed'
'Minimum Requirement for Processor 1Ghz - don't make me laugh! (Presumably for Phone 8)
M'soft have a 'more info' link on System Requirements page, so why not spell it out...
Otherwise it looks like a PR/Cosmetic exersize
Not helpful
Dell Precision 490 Desktop Intel XEON X5365 (Quadcore) x 2 Chipset X5000 321x/3221ESB Southbridge AMD Radeon HD7750 HDD ST3000DM001 3TB HDD ST2000DM001 2TB SSD OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD OCZ Vector3 128GB x2 RAID 0 Offline WD10EALX 1TB Barracuda 7200.10 250GB
USB 3.0 WD MyBook 1230 3TB USB 3.0 WD MyBook 1130 2TB

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