The display driver "amdkmdap" has stopped responding and has recovered.

[Xernicus]

So just from the little bit of digging that I did, it looks like it is a hardware issue. I'm surprised because hardware issues usually cause BSOD's. Luckily for you though, your graphics card is on the older side, and is going on 4 years old. So, you'll be able to replace it with a newer, faster card for probably only USD$50. I understand that this might not be the solution that you're looking for, but it's better than just going out and buying a whole new computer. You've got some great specs on your motherboard and CPU, that will last you for another 3-5 years I'd imagine

[GoldenWings]

true words Xenicus

 

I'll look around   what gives on market next chrismas coming sure

[JoeDirt]

Either you suck at installing drivers, you are overclokcing your card beyond its means, or the card does not have enough power to run or it is overheating. You still did not say what model card it is.

[Xernicus]

Either you suck at installing drivers, you are overclokcing your card beyond its means, or the card does not have enough power to run or it is overheating. You still did not say what model card it is.

The topic he linked to had screenshots of a system profiling program. My FIRM belief, and this is coming from an IT specialist, is never to overclock. And if you do, to do it sparingly, and on a sliding scale as needed. I know that AMD has it's own program called Overdrive that you can use to safely overclock your GPU. But you need to keep your eye mostly on the memory speed, and the temperature. Those NAND chips are very, very sensitive to overclocking, so only overclock the memory bus if it's like, the end of the world or something.

[S3ti]

The topic he linked to had screenshots of a system profiling program. My FIRM belief, and this is coming from an IT specialist, is never to overclock. And if you do, to do it sparingly, and on a sliding scale as needed. I know that AMD has it's own program called Overdrive that you can use to safely overclock your GPU. But you need to keep your eye mostly on the memory speed, and the temperature. Those NAND chips are very, very sensitive to overclocking, so only overclock the memory bus if it's like, the end of the world or something.

If you don't go crazy with the voltages and have a good cooling system it's pretty safe, at least from my experience. I overclocked every of my systems since P1 and that were quite a few...had one time a fried videocard because the cooler was insufficient but else no hardware damage related to overclocking. If you know what you're doing (especially with the voltages) and don't let the system run permanently at its maximum limit, then it's usually fine even for years

[JoeDirt]

The topic he linked to had screenshots of a system profiling program. My FIRM belief, and this is coming from an IT specialist, is never to overclock. And if you do, to do it sparingly, and on a sliding scale as needed. I know that AMD has it's own program called Overdrive that you can use to safely overclock your GPU. But you need to keep your eye mostly on the memory speed, and the temperature. Those NAND chips are very, very sensitive to overclocking, so only overclock the memory bus if it's like, the end of the world or something.

Not true, most cards you can extract additional 20-30 percent on memory alone, GPU 30-40 if you got good cooling and adequate power.

[GoldenWings]

I think I have read times

this is already  into account in the making, a slight overclock

if this is true so I can not say!

 

The manufacturer reserves are determined to hold back some if there are changes and they  a little bit more  power needed for updates

[S3ti]

I think I have read times

this is already  into account in the making, a slight overclock

if this is true so I can not say!

 

The manufacturer reserves are determined to hold back some if there are changes and they  a little bit more  power needed for updates

There are dies (the core of a chip) that can go way higher than labeled and are just sold as lower spec chips because there is usually more demand for low/midrange processors than high end, or to simply complete the manufacturer's product palette. Actually all chips from the same series are printed on the same silicon wafers. It's more a economical than technical question for the manufacturers. So pretty much every cpu/gpu/ram can go higher than labeled, some more and some less.

 

As the price of the chip is largely dictated by the die yield per wafer (more dies successfully sliced per wafer equates more supply and lower prices), companies aim to output more dies at 'safer' specs. By doing this, the companies are opting for an overall more reliable product at the expense of speeds, which are quite possibly lower than their fullest potential. That's where you come in as an overclocker - unveiling the full potential of your chip.

Pretty good description here: http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/924-overclocking-primer-guide

 

Here a short german description : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbertakten#.C3.9Cberblick

 

Edited September 5, 2013 by S3ti

[GoldenWings]

hehe so it is!!!!!!

all just market economy

 

 

Oh and before I forget, seti thanks for  bed reading matter 1+

[oOShockWaveOo]

hello everyone

      I have the same problem here, but not very often, I use the latest nVidia driver which is 320, this never happened to me before I tried overclocking it, I used EVGA Precision X, played a little while with it, and It didn't warmup, until the driver crashed, so I removed the overclock utility, and set the settings back to default, and since then my driver crashes from time to time, try reseting the BIOS, removing the driver, and try to do a clean driver install, not sure if AMD got has this option.

       good luck bro