Windows 8 CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED

Ended up finding links like the following:

  • Windows 8 Bsod's EVERY hour :( Seriously, every hour!! Help
  • Windows 8 Crashes only when resuming from sleep

Apparently, the Crucial M4 series of SSDs have an odd bug, even if they're not set to the boot drive, that they need to have their firmware updated or after approximately 5000 hours the drive will go into a healing/repair mode and shut down every hour, when it does, Windows 8 throws a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED blue screen.

Crucial has a firmware update that fixes it.

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Bsod

Windows 8