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Persistent OS errors even after clean install dtdll.dll svchost, etc
Please, for the love of god please help me. I'm $2000 deep in this computer with $1000 in my monitors and this is honestly starting to really stress me out as I cannot pinpoint the reason for which I am getting errors.
(Important error is about 1/2 way down)
This PC is about 1 month 3 weeks old, It was built professionally with new parts.
This computer has just had persistent software problems many of which leading back to the Operating system. I cannot for the life of me figure out any of these. At first I was noticing that I was getting very regular logs of "Microsoftedge.exe stopped working" in Reliability Monitor. That of which I eventually pinpointed to having a corrupt windows store cache or license.
The issue there persisted after 4-5 fresh installs. One was done at Frys with windows installation media and SDI for drivers. Second time was done AT THE MICROSOFT STORE, and SDI for drivers. The third time I decided to try it myself as I suspected it was possibly the SDI driver utility that was causing that problem.
I ran in to the same issue immediately, I installed my drivers manually. I even tried not installing my drivers and just letting windows run its own course. I tried it with and without a Microsoft account, tried it with my old one and a new account.
Tried all the SFC/ DISM, etc scans. If a fresh install can't fix it I don't know what will.
The corrupt store cache and licenses I am not extremely concerned about, for whatever reason its on my brand new laptop too. I don't notice any performance issues when the errors are logged, Reliability monitor will say Microsoft edge stopped working but I'll be using it fine. It seems to affect applications connected to the Windows store in some way.
Now the problem that I have just recently been experiencing, I am honestly so frustrated at this point, I've spent hours upon hours regularly diagnosing errors on this PC ever since I got it, its a curse.
Today I received my EVGA GTX 1080 FTW which was an upgrade from my EVGA 1070 FTW.
I followed all the precautions of installing a new graphics card. I used DDU and uninstalled the old drivers through safe mode. I went and reset the settings on MSI afterburner and I removed MSI afterburner and chose to not keep settings.
I powered off the PC, turned off the power supply and unplugged the PSU. I discharged static onto a metal surface and put on latex disposable gloves.
I removed the old GPU and inserted the new GPU. Booted up and installed the drivers.
Everything seemed to work fine. But I checked reliability history (I've been a bit paranoid...) and sure enough it showed an error. It showed that Windows Image Acquisition had stopped working. Now I know this is more or less also tied to my printer, but my printer had been working fine before. The WIA stopped working would maybe happen once every few weeks before which was fine. This time every time the PC was rebooted it would show the WIA stopped responding error.
I've tried all the fixes, none of them worked. I even tried restoring my system to two days before, that didn't fix it either.
THEN I clean installed windows 10... still the same errors. I figured why not remove the graphics card and reinstall windows 10... same... errors.
I'm concerned before the faulting module was not a canon driver or something of that sort but dtdll.dll that caused Svchost_stvic to crash which subsequently caused WIA to crash.
If I go into services.msc and try to start WIA again I will get an error code of 1607 that says I cannot start it up.
I'm so confused.
Also, upon the fresh install looking in Event Viewer there are lots and lots of errors. Within 15 minutes of my last fresh install there were 105 errors and 104 warnings. Many of which showed driver installation failures or processes not working...
There was a lot to read there, I really apologize! But I'm really out of ideas on what I should do, I'm honestly getting really anxious trying to fix this thing.
I'm a college student so all these expensive parts took a while to gather...
I'm suspecting its possibly my motherboard? Maybe? I don't even know what to think anymore. Originally this system was running an i5 6600k, I upgraded to an i7 6700k. Now I upgraded from a GTX 1070 to a GTX 1080. The only other thing I can think of is the motherboard!
I've been reusing this Windows key though, could that somehow be causing some kind of problem?
It is not fake, nor is it OEM, I have the windows 10 box with the paper key and the little install disk sitting next to me. I know these should be reusable.
Please, any pointers anywhere would be appreciated. I am so frustrated right now. I don't know whats wrong with my system and who/ what part is at fault....