Windows 10: New PC, BSOD (PDC_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT) while playing Bloodstained

Hey y'all! This is the first time I've ever had such problems, so your help is very much appreciated. I haven't played many games on this thing yet, as it is only 3 days in use, but Apex Legends and Overwatch seem to work fine while Bloodstained does not -- it always crashes, sometimes after an hour into the game, sometimes even before I can hit the title screen.

BlueScreenView seems to point its fingers towards ntoskrnl.exe and hal.dll.

I did the Driver Verifier process and have uploaded the zip, hopefully it worked out and you can find all the relevant info there. Thanks very much in advance!

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Surface Pro 3 PDC_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT BSOD

after about a week of no issues, I just suffered another PDC_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT BSOD today. I wonder if I have a defective type cover.

 

Surface Pro 3 PDC_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT BSOD

I've run SFC /scannow and DISM and I'm still getting the PDC_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT BSOD. My surface is up to date, I have no idea what to do about this. It's so annoying.

 

PC reboots (no BSOD) on CPU stress

Hi fellow TPU members,

not too long ago, the box my gf's PC was transported in gave way on the stairs. Yes, you got it right, that sent a PC tumbling down a flight of steps alright.

Stuff broke. Also, stuff remained intact somehow.

I bought her a new case, new CPU cooler and we removed the floppy drive, so far so good. But the PC started crashing for no apparent reason, without a BSOD.

I tested:

• Memtest86+, left overnight, 0 errors
• Scanned the HDD for errors, nothing there
• Left FurMark burning up the GFX card and drawing some power, no problems there
• Ran Ubuntu from a Live CD doing nothing special, didn't crash
• Ran OCCT, Linpack, Prime95, all 3 caused reboots within minutes
• Oh, and I disabled "Restart on error" so I'm sure it's not a BSOD.

Now, I can still try and test something CPU intensive on Ubuntu, but my guess is the CPU didn't survive.
Before I do anything drastic like whippin' out the magic wallet and get her a new AMD quad, is there anything I didn't see?
I'm guessing the motherboard could be borkered as well, but can I check that other than replacing the CPU with a working one?
Any suggestions on which proggies I can use from an Ubuntu Live CD to stress the CPU?