Windows 8.1 Pro Will Not Join Domain

Hello,
I know this a bit lengthy, but hopefully all the details will better help you guys understand my problem.
We just purchased an HP Pavilion Windows 8.1 laptop for our office along with the Windows 8.1 Pro Pack upgrade. When I went to install the pro upgrade, it accepted my key and started the upgrade process, but before the install completed, an error was generated
that stated "Something went wrong. " No error code was generated. I restarted the laptop, it did some updates, and when I logged back in, I checked under the computer properties and noticed that the OS version was changed to Windows 8.1 Pro with
Media Center, so I assumed that it installed. I checked for corrupted files in the command prompt and no corrupted files were found.
So, the next thing I tried to do was join the laptop to our domain. I have joined XPs, Vistas, and 7s with no problems, but for some reason, Windows 8.1 does not want to join the domain. Just to be clear, I have the laptop plugged in via ethernet and the
wifi off, I checked that the DNS of the laptop matched the DNS of the server, and all firewalls have been disabled. It seems to find the domain, but when it asks for the credentials to join the server, it returns an error stating that the domain could not
be contacted or information was entered incorrectly. I know I am entering the correct credentials because, just to test, I created a new user account on a different machine and used the credentials to join the server. I pinged the server from the laptop and
vice-versa, and all packets were received with no errors, so I know that they are "seeing" each other. Also, If I join the laptop to a Workgroup instead of the domain, I am able to access the server using the same credentials that it will not accept
when attempting to join the domain.
I am baffled. Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated. Thanks!

I had exactly the same issue as above.  When I rebooted my machine, it now shows that the upgrade to Pro Pack with media center is installed.
Haven't tried adding to a domain yet...  will post an update when/if it fails.  No reply means it joined fine after rebooting it from a failed attempt as above.   I suspect that this had something to do with the fact that I had just logged
on to the machine and ran setup for the first time.
Reboot after setting up the computer for the first time, then proceed with the upgrade to 8.1 Pro Pack and I suspect that this issue won't occur.  

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