Question "CPU Clock Watchdog Timeout" BSOD and Black Screen while gaming ?

[John harnold]

• ASRock Z590-C/ac
• GeForce RTX 3070
• 1 TB HD
• 11th Gen i7 11700k @3.60GHz
• [8GB x 2] DDR4-3200MHz
• Windows 11 Home

This problem did not happen a few months ago, but now after playing a game or something with higher intensity on my pc I started to see the "CPU Clock Watchdog Timeout" BSOD which has happened over the past week. Now today I have played the game and it runs fine for either a few hours or 30-ish minutes (no pattern) and goes to a black screen with a few pixels sort of outlining the previous stuff in the game. I have a liquid AIO cpu cooler and is it truly done for and the cause of these problems or is there something else?

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Can you go into Device Manager and see if any component or item shows up with a yellow exclamation mark? Make and model of your AIO and case? Temps for your CPU and GPU just before you get the issue? You also forgot to mention the make and model of your PSU.

 

[DanielCalota]

• ASRock Z590-C/ac
• GeForce RTX 3070
• 1 TB HD
• 11th Gen i7 11700k @3.60GHz
• [8GB x 2] DDR4-3200MHz
• Windows 11 Home

This problem did not happen a few months ago, but now after playing a game or something with higher intensity on my pc I started to see the clock watchdog timeout bsod which have happened over the past week. Now today I have played and the game runs fine for either a few hours or 30ish minutes (no pattern) and goes to a black screen with a few pixels sort of outlining the previous stuff in the game. I have a liquid AIO cpu cooler and is it truly done for and the cause of these problems or is there something else?

Hi, try to check if you have latest update for bios and also for video card , you can try check updates for windows also and if all is ok you can monitor temperature of the components and see if they are to high , you can also check the power source to see if is hot or not , you can also verify ram memory with me test and also you can check HDD with HD Sentinel , just to make sure all is ok , and after that you can test and see , hope it will help you.

 

[John harnold]

I am away from my computer right now, and will get the specs for the other parts later. But I have ran a mem test and that was fine, CPU temp was getting quite hot and abnormal temps which is why I believe it is the culprit . All the drivers and such are up to date