Win 10 error Clock Watchdog Timeout

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Booted up this morning and noticed it took longer than usual to POST beep..........................when it got to starting W10 it BSD'ed with Clock Watchdog Timeout. Never seen that before???

F8 and went into Auto Repair > Restore > Failed then advanced options > to continue to see if it would boot or not, it did on the second go ~ as now running ;)

Still not sure but WUP did install the updated nVidia driver on 27/10/17 reading at that time some gamers were having issues with that version 388.13 now I am mot sure which one I had before and think it was the legacy one from when I upgraded from W7 to W10 a good while back.

I tried via Device properties to roll back and it crashed, upon reboot rollback was greyed out!

I have downloaded the newer 388.43 and in process of downloading 384.94 (earliest legacy one they listed I could find)

So other than uninstalling (or overwrite installing) one of the above newer or older drivers what else should I look at and/or be aware of???

NB a few days ago I noticed on boot a vertical line of pixels were odd but this rectified itself once warmed up so not obviously connected!

TIA for any insights and suggestions :)

PS I just noticed that the case HDD activity light is permanently on but with minimal disk activity showing "task manager"???
 
@Mr Bump Hi Paul

Thanks for the heads up/pointer :)

I went through the greyed out devices including currently disconnected USB ones (this included my Sandisk card reader) and deleted them....................did a restart and all seemed well if a little slow to POST and full boot.

So did a "shut down" which in W10 is a hybrid hibernation and left it 30mins to let everything cool down

Re-booted and it was nice a normal and now also no constant red HDD activity light.

Therefore fingers crossed that this was an incidental thing that will not come up again (if ever???)

In regard to greyed out devices I found a few duplicates such the display device!
 
Box Brownie said:
@Mr Bump Hi Paul

Thanks for the heads up/pointer :)

I went through the greyed out devices including currently disconnected USB ones (this included my Sandisk card reader) and deleted them....................did a restart and all seemed well if a little slow to POST and full boot.

So did a "shut down" which in W10 is a hybrid hibernation and left it 30mins to let everything cool down

Re-booted and it was nice a normal and now also no constant red HDD activity light.

Therefore fingers crossed that this was an incidental thing that will not come up again (if ever???)

In regard to greyed out devices I found a few duplicates such the display device!
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glad i could help.
 
Overclocked at all? I got that a few times when my clock wasn't quite set right.

The vertical line of pixels may be of concern, what Gpu?

Do you run any temperature monitoring? Something like hwinfo64
 
neil_g said:
Overclocked at all? I got that a few times when my clock wasn't quite set right.

The vertical line of pixels may be of concern, what Gpu?

Do you run any temperature monitoring? Something like hwinfo64
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Hi Neil

Overclocked? Used to run the RAM a little overvolt in the W7 days but that was because the RAM was unstable at stock voltage. Since I had issues and discovered I had one stick with a fault I swapped the lot out for Crucial Ballistix and has been fine for ages.................am sure I reset the BIOS to defaults but can recheck?

The GPU is GeForce GT610, the vertical line appeared on cold boot a few days back making me think that screen was heading towards failure(?) but as mentioned it disappears within say 10mins of running!

I do check my temps but not running in the background. I also make sure to keep an active intake of air blowing over my hard drive cage (4 drives in it).

I use CPUID Hardware Monitor.....just checked it:-
DDR volts 1.57v (not sure now whether that is the slight overvolt or just the BIOS managing it?)
CPU and i5 four core temp 43degrees (max of the four cores lowest I think was 42)
HDD's max 35degrees (between 33 to 35 depending on the various drives)
GT610 temp is 48degress (NB this is a passive cooled card)

All HDDs are AOK in SMART reading
 
Welllll!

This morning's boot up seemed a tad long but all looked OK. However, the disk activity still running and was busy to start to start with Malwarebytes service and ESET service................they have finished but there is still the activity light on continuously i.e. not flickering like it does if the HDD access is quick and spasmodic with just "Windows System" showing in task manager.
 
I was puzzled by the continuously lit HDD activity light so did a restart>>>>>got the Clock Watchdog Timeout again :(

So is it hardware or software driver?

But the one clue I get as to whether there will be a problem seems to be how long it takes to POST beep. In the case of this time it POSTed like normal i.e. fairly promptly.....though the time has varied slightly and no issues but when it takes approx 10seconds that is when the Loading OS fails with the Timeout error. I do get the W10 startup screen and the circling dots but I now know it will error out when the dots go very slowly or stop!

Once up and running like now all appears to go well NB on this start up I do not have the continuously lit HDD activity light :)

PS checked BIOS and RAM volt setting is on auto i.e. default.
 
Update

Since the issue ~ for the past few days all seems AOK in that it POSTs as before and no more such errors............................fingers crossed.???

There was a WUP this week following the problem though the PC was behaving itself before the update so no obvious reason for the problem or why it has now 'disappeared' !!!
 
Forgot to say I still get, though not everytime, the coloured vertical line down the screen but it does disappear after a good few minutes.

I surmise this is more indicative of the screen than the video card & its driver? If so I do hope that any failure will not be sudden i.e. I will have time before its goes very wrong to get a new monitor......perhaps time to re-read all the most recent threads about ones to choose from???

FWIW this one is the Dell 2209W, there is some space so could maybe go to 25inch but much bigger I am pushing it. Though if I recall one 'new monitor thread' had some folk suggesting a 27inch wide screen with a resolution to use 'split screen' and have the image being worked on on one section and all the LR tools et al on the (smaller) other section.

As some time has elapsed since those last threads I would welcome any reminders as to monitor choices :)
 
Bumping my own thread ;)

I had another event, this occurred after running a Malware Bytes Scan..............so nothing really odd. The HDD was on continuously to re-booted and that triggered the error event.

Otherwise nothing changed and the last WUP was on 13th March!

I did a forced shutdown and waited 10 mins >>>>>>>boot up>>>>>>>>>. OK for now :phew: With normal HDD activity.
 
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