IPhone 5 Unable to be Restored

Yesterday, my six-month old iPhone 5 randomly stopped responding (black screen). The Home / Power buttons did not trigger any response from the device, even when attempting a reset. I tried plugging the device into my PC, to no avail. I then plugged the device directly into an outlet and tried the reset again, which worked. The phone rebooted and all was well. I plugged the phone into my PC again, using it periodically throughout the night and upon waking up this morning, I encountered the same issue. This time, everything I've tried has failed. After several reset attempts, the device is now demanding I complete the restore process.
Unfortunately, it's taken me several hours to get the restore process to even start, having received several errors ranging from 4005, 4013, 4014 and "device not found". My most recent attempt finally appeared to be working however, iTunes displays "Waiting for iPhone" and the progress bar displayed on the phone itself has not moved at all in the last 90 minutes. My iCloud storage is approximately 1.5 GB, and with a 40 MB connection, I shouldn't be having any issues.
I've looked at about two dozen support articles, so I don't believe there is anything that can be linked to that will be of any use. I've updated iTunes, updated my Windows OS, rebooted my system, etc, etc, etc.
I'm currently using update 7.1.1, as it initially prompted me to update to 7.1.2 upon doing the restore. I'm assuming this update has caused this device failure (unsurprisingly).
At this point, I'm lost as to what to try. I refuse to pay the ridiculous prices Apple charges to fix malfunctions not caused by the user. I essentially need to pay them to tell me "yep, it's junk", which is silly.

Hey Orbit Storm,
Thanks for the question. I understand you are experiencing a few issues with your iPhone 5. It sounds like you were able to get the iPhone working again after following the power-related steps in this resource (resetting while connected to power):
iPhone: Hardware troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2802
I also see that you received a few error messages when attempting to restore your device. I imagine you may have already looked up these error messages, but just in case here they are:
iOS: Restore errors 4005, 4013, and 4014
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5314
At this point, it sounds like the device is stuck in the restore process. If this issues still persists, you may want to try restoring your device with another computer/usb cable and also using recovery mode:
If you can't update or restore your iOS device
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Thanks,
Matt M.

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