I have a Win 7 x64 Ultimate machine that still runs Windows Media Center in a dedicated home theater setup.
It's been running great for years, is integrated into a home automation system and there has been no need to move onto something else for the time being.
It plays files via mapped network drives from a NAS or another machine on my network.
Over the past few months, I've been getting random 6008 restarts. The first time this happened, I got a BSOD and a DMP file, but neither since.
The PC is set to NOT automatically restart on system failure and there is nothing else in the Event Log to indicate a potential problem.
It only seems to happen when WMC is running and also only in the early morning hours, which leads me to believe there is some WMC task that runs.
Since most if not all streaming/TV services for WMC have been discontinued, I've disabled any scheduled WMC/MCE tasks I could find.
I let the machine run for 2 days without WMC running and it never crashed.
With WMC left running overnight, I will consistently get at least 2 or more 6008s during this period.
There are also times I will be in the middle of watching something and the PC will literally just restart.
Again, no warning, no error, no BSOD and no DMP files.
Have tried both Kernel and Small Memory Dump options, but neither ever gets created.
Page File is fixed to 8GB (amount of physical RAM in this machine) on the C drive.
I then discovered this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...n-you-try-to-access-a-shared-network-resource
The one dump that already existed on the machine from earlier in the year referenced Rdbss.sys with error 0x00000027.
This seemed like a good place to start. I located a download for this Hotfix (no longer hosted on the Windows site) here:
Windows6.1-KB2584874-x64.msu -> Language Neutral Windows 7 Hotfix Downloads -> Language Neutral Hotfix Downloads -> Downloads
If I attempt to install, I get "not applicable to your computer".
I'd like to know if there is another update that is interfering, if it's rolled into one that's already installed on my machine, or if there are some registry settings I can check in lieu of the hotfix, etc.
I could of course start uninstalling Windows Updates as far back as approximately when the problem started happening (as it could very well be something with an update), but I would really like to give this a go first.
Already cleaned out the case, cleaned slots, re-seated/tested RAM, etc. PSU tests OK.
Only things I haven't done are remove the CPU and apply fresh thermal grease or change out the SSD.
Otherwise, no hardware changes whatsoever.
Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated!
