For the last couple of years my Win7 WMC box, which is a dedicated DVR, has randomly restarted every week or so for seemingly no reason. Nothing in the logs to point to, other than "I bluescreened". I wondered if maybe ShowAnalyzer was burping, because that's the only add-on I have.
Recently it got REAL bad--as in, twice a day. I figured, after 4 years, maybe it's the hard drives causing problems.
Anyway, for some reason I decided to search around for possible answers. I stumbled upon an answer I cannot for the life of me find again, but it had to do with "the WMC thumbs.db is corrupt; delete it and let WMC rebuild it". This involves stopping the ehome service to unlock the file, deleting the file, and rebooting.
When I did this, I did notice that WMC had to rebuild the show thumbnails. No big deal. But I swear, since I did this two weeks ago, my machine hasn't rebooted since.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about and have a good link to something like what I found?
WMC box randomly restarting--possible answer
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I don't have the answer you are looking for but I do have a.....
Couple ideas for you:
1- See a Specialist http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
2- Everyone else blames this kind of thing on Ceton. Send them the dump files and see if they have time to look it over.
Couple ideas for you:
1- See a Specialist http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
2- Everyone else blames this kind of thing on Ceton. Send them the dump files and see if they have time to look it over.
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I do remember having to delete the tvthumb.db file when it became corrupt somehow, I think it was during the TVPack days though...
Rob.
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