recording service no longer starting automatically???

[2leftfeet]

All of a sudden, starting this morning, after over a year of operation, I am seeing that the record service is not automatically starting when server is boots. This has now happened 3 times in a row - never happened before. I changed nothing on the server, hardware of software. The service is set to start automatically, but no longer seems to be starting at bootup. It will start if I manually start the service.

Windows 7 event logs are reporting the following errors:

Event 7000
The NPVR Recording Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Event 7009
A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the NPVR Recording Service service to connect.


Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks

[johnsonx42]

Does any nrecord.log ever get created for the boot time start attempt? Are there any other events in the event viewer that could be related?

[2leftfeet]

Followup:

After following the advice posted in other threads, I switched the recording service to automatic w/delayed start. This seems to have done the trick. I still am confused in that the server has been operating fine for 18 straight months before this issue surfaced. I have come to expect odd behavior with Windows 10, but not so much with Windows 7.