BSOD with CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT under heavy parallel workloads

The problem: System crashes with CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT specifically during heavily parallelized workloads utilizing many CPU cores simultaneously.

Symptoms: BSOD occurs during compiling, video rendering, or other highly multi-threaded tasks; single-threaded or lighter workloads run without issue; may correlate with CPU overclocking or aggressive power management settings.

Likely cause: One CPU core failed to respond to a clock interrupt within the expected timeframe, often due to CPU instability under sustained multi-core load, power management causing a core to enter an unresponsive low-power state at the wrong moment, or a BIOS power management bug.

Category: Blue Screen / BSOD · Difficulty: Advanced · Windows: Both · Error code: CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT

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