Why my system preferences does not open?

Hey guys! I posted my system specs before you start.

Anywho, after a fresh clean install of OSX El Capitan (because my iMac crashed recently and I had to wipe my hard drive completely... Yes, there was a lot of tears), like, literally yesterday, I can't open my system preferences. As I click on the sign of the Apple at the top left, then go to System Preferences...

This is what happens...

The small system preferences icon bounces just bounces... bounce... and then... nothing... to frikkin' ever. I have to force it to quit. I try again and again, same thing. So, I go in Applications run in 32-bit mode, try again and guess what? Celestial tracks. No problem... UNTIL I try to choose an option, any option, and he ALWAYS tells me it need to restart System preferences to open whatever it is, then proceeds to give me spinwheel thing... and then crashes and I have to force quit... again.

So, I suppose, in 64-bit and 32-bit, it does not work properly. And Yes, for the love of God, I already tried the delete your whole com.apple.systempreferences.plist, but also the other things that other forums will tell you to remove in system preferences.

Note: another issue, I felt at the same time, it's that for the life of me I can't Time Machine to notice my external hard drive. I tried updating all the disks on my external hard drive, repair permissions, first aid, USB 3.0 update, power cycling, rebooting with alt + cmmnd + P + R, single-user mode, fcsk, safe mode, most first aid,... like, what the hell is happening? Laughing out loud

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Drew

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