Unable to Join Windows Homegroup

I currently have an issue where both computers can see each other in network discovery and both can see that there is a home group available to join but they always fail when entering the passcode.

when the PC is the host I get a windows can no longer detect the homegroup error on the laptop.

when the laptop is the host I get a windows cannot setup a homegroup on this computer on the pc.

The PC is running 7 Ultimate and the laptop is running 8.1 and a homegroup was previously working in the past. I have completely disabled windows firewall and uninstalled the custom firewall I was using. I also wiped the peer network profiles on both machines.

The only error report is the same on both devices

1. - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
   
2. - <System>
   
3. <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-HomeGroup-ProviderService" Guid="{C9BDB4EB-9287-4C8E-8378-6896F0D1C5EF}" ></Provider>
   
4. <EventID>5008</EventID>
   
5. <Version>0</Version>
   
6. <Level>4</Level>
   
7. <Task>0</Task>
   
8. <Opcode>0</Opcode>
   
9. <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
   
10. <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-07-15T12:56:53.341822700Z" ></TimeCreated>
    
11. <EventRecordID>7317</EventRecordID>
    
12. <Correlation ></Correlation>
    
13. <Execution ProcessID="916" ThreadID="936" ></Execution>
    
14. <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-HomeGroup Provider Service/Operational</Channel>
    
15. <Computer>Laptop</Computer>
    
16. <Security UserID="S-1-5-19" ></Security>
    
17. </System>
    
18. - <EventData>
    
19. <Data Name="Error">???</Data>
    
20. <Data Name="Message">Computer</Data>
    
21. </EventData>
    
22. </Event>