My ESET Antivirus keeps telling to install Intel Watchdog Timer. I have latest Intel chipset drivers installed from ASUS for my Prime H270 Plus motherboard, but not sure if this timer thing is needed or I can disregard the alert from ESET. Running an i3-7100 CPU, and Windows 10 Creators Update.
Well, this is what Intel says about it "A watchdog timer is a hardware monitoring tool that prompts system recovery after a failure with a simple pinging mechanism. The timer is not pinged after a certain amount of time, saving system information to aid with debugging. (v.2, Aug. 2015)".
Enabling and Configuring Watchdog Timer - Intel® IOT Gateways
Well, offhand I'd say it wasn't necessary. I can't find hide nor hair of it on my machine so it can't be "essential". I can find nothing anywhere that states anything different either.
Thanks. I have never had it on any of my machines ever. ESET has been giving the alert daily since the latest EST program update. I might just switch of the notification settings, as I always manually check for updated drivers anyway, and Windows 10 does its own thing for its updates.
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