Comment 67 for bug 791089

Cooper, yehgoo's suggestion worked for me. I entered

sudo sh -c "echo 'blacklist nv_tco' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf"

on the command line, which just appends "blacklist nv_tco" to the "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf" list. No problems so far. I too, would like a better solution, but that's Linux for you.