ok, so i've encountered a big bug in bitcoin-qt: it won't work on windows 8. I get the same errors on litecoin-qt. it is NOT my hardware, i've tested everything.
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
received block 00000000df67a210f1360326b96370b21e2a7cab85d21c006ed78e8b8f8be6f6
SetBestChain: new best=00000000df67a210f1360326b96370b21e2a7cab85d21c006ed78e8b8f8be6f6 height=1707 log2_work=42.738114 tx=1735 date=2009-01-25 04:09:20 progress=0.000032
ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
received block 00000000aa73dd78c5969494dec670aa8ec157824d76020561677e9aeb7f5c09
Unable to open file C:\Users\Joe\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\blocks\blk00000.dat
ERROR: CBlock::ReadFromDisk() : OpenBlockFile failed
*** Failed to read block
connection timeout
trying connection 115.64.145.36:8333 lastseen=6.9hrs
ERROR: AcceptBlock() : AddToBlockIndex failed
ERROR: ProcessBlock() : AcceptBlock FAILED