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BSODs from MS Office 2013 Security Updates on new build i7 6700K PC
Hi, I have tried a lot of diagnostic work before putting my hand up as I am not finding a path out of the bsods and miscellaneous errant behavior of this new build which works great sometimes and then falls over. I can duplicate the principle faults (bsods) reliably but doubt my reasoning is conclusively accurate. Basically whenever I install the last 7 security updates for MS Office 2013 it will bsod within 5 - 10 seconds of logging in. Always works in safe mode and restoring to pre-update always fixes it. This was a list of 70 before I got it down to 7, of which I know at least 2 directly cause a bsod and I am unsure of how complicit the others / combinations are. I have tried MS help and it is very slow going over there - after some hours and losing the remote connection on a restart as I needed to do a restore to sort some of their experimenting just to get proper control back! Sure would appreciate some more pointed help, thank you.
I have done a fresh install of Win 7 after maybe a decade or more of living with an XP upgraded to Win 7 PC based on an original QX9650 in an Asus Maximus X38 board. Made mistakes like not understanding junctions properly and took over some permissions I shouldn't have, etc etc. New build, backed up everything (in duplicate) and bit the bullet.
All I have been trying to do is get a fully stable machine on no overclocking and live with that for a few months before even thinking about serious tinkering. The ASUS Maximus 8 Assembly with 64Gb Corsair RAM and an i7 6700K cpu was a pig to get going. It needed to have no graphics cards or anything else before finally on progressive installs of the various bits it was all connected, four monitors running and seemingly stable. This is a serious PC for engineering applications, plus I have a Rift I am yet to get out of the box for both gaming and tech applications I have in mind.
Attached is the bsod info and requested diagnostics. Also I have run the windows diagnostics on it and attached results.
Separately, or maybe related, I keep getting big slowdowns due to dwm.exe (Windows Desktop Manager) which after a while decides to hit me with the option to go to a high contrast color scheme which I say No and don't ask again. Within a couple of hours it will ask. Right now Resource Monitor shows it has about 70 handles open and using 11% cpu. But the most bizarre one is mscorsvw.exe which Google teels me is the .NET Framework trying to update itself so I should run 7318.DrainNGenQueue.wsf to give it a hurry up, which I typically need to do twice to get the rather dramatic result shown in attached 3 pager telling this bizarre story (have you ever seen 64Gb RAM cycling so impressively?!!!)
PC Summary:
ASUS MAXIMUS-VIII-EXTREME-ASSEMBLY Z170 Express, E-ATX, LGA1151 DDR4 Motherboard
Intel Core i7 6700K Skylake Quad-Core CPU LGA1151 Unlocked BX80662I76700K
4x16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 64GB DDR4 3466MHz C16 with AirFlow for Intel 100 series (CMD64GX4M4B3466C16)
Asus STRIX-GTX980Ti-DC3OC-6Gb D5
ASUS Strix GTX 960 OC 4GB D5
Samsung SSD 2TB 850 EVO
Samsung SSD 250Gb 840 Pro
BARRACUDA XT 7200.12,2TB
1000W "Silverstone" ST1000 Power Supply
Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H50 High-performance CPU Cooler