Corrupted Windows - Multiple installs, multiple SSDs

[Djxinator]

Evening folks.

 

It all began when PUBG randomly started to crash 3 times per game.

 

I started getting artifacts when playing back videos on YT, Twitch and on VLC.

 

I also started getting CRC errors when unzipping files, and some PUBG crashes were also CRC related.

 

I tried many things, single sticks of RAM, one SSD only. Nothing seemed to work.

 

Decided to format everything and start again. So I reinstalled Windows. This is where things started to get real funky

 

- Windows Defender wouldn't update

- Windows itself wouldn't update

- Most of my device drivers were corrupt

- attempting to install any kind of driver resulted failure

- unpacking Nvidia drivers resulted in a CRC error

 

This same crap occured on all 3 of my SSDs, with separate installs of Windows, with individual sticks of RAM. It also occured on an SSD which had never been near my system and was pulled from a known working PC.

 

On all the install attemtps, running SFC /scannow resulted in corruption being detected and it being unfixable.

 

DISM also failed to correct the issue.

 

I'm thinking this is Motherboard related. If any of you have any other ideas, before I decide to upgrade a year early, please let me know.

 

Cheers.

 

[Stevoisboss]

Were you reinstalling windows with the same usb? 

[Djxinator]

Nope, two different USBs.