Ok I've been having the "Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered" error since day one of my brand new system running Windows 7 (64bit, fully up-to-date). So for about a month now with a Radeon 5770, AMD PIIx4 955, Gigabyte - GA-MA770T-UD3, 4GB memory.
I've had to disable aero as that usually triggered it once or twice a day. Playing any game (crysis, bioshock 2, assassins creed) triggers it randomly after anything from 5 seconds to two hours. When it happens audio keeps going, but the screen freezes (sometimes turns black) and I have to end task and when back to my desktop the error is displayed.
I've done lots of research, but despite plenty of people having this problem I've not found a solution that works. I've made sure to remove old drivers (in safemode) and am using the latest (Catalyst 10.3).
I'm thinking two things that may have an impact and would like to hear your opinions.
1) My 500w True Blue II PSU only has a 4 pin 12v plug and the gigabyte motherboard takes an 8 pin. Everything appears to be working fine, but could this be part of the issue?
2) To keep the case nice and cool I've reduced the voltage one step (I'm not overclocking). The default voltage in the bios was a bit high (1.4v) so I reduced it to 1.375v. Again could this be the issue?
I've had to disable aero as that usually triggered it once or twice a day. Playing any game (crysis, bioshock 2, assassins creed) triggers it randomly after anything from 5 seconds to two hours. When it happens audio keeps going, but the screen freezes (sometimes turns black) and I have to end task and when back to my desktop the error is displayed.
I've done lots of research, but despite plenty of people having this problem I've not found a solution that works. I've made sure to remove old drivers (in safemode) and am using the latest (Catalyst 10.3).
I'm thinking two things that may have an impact and would like to hear your opinions.
1) My 500w True Blue II PSU only has a 4 pin 12v plug and the gigabyte motherboard takes an 8 pin. Everything appears to be working fine, but could this be part of the issue?
2) To keep the case nice and cool I've reduced the voltage one step (I'm not overclocking). The default voltage in the bios was a bit high (1.4v) so I reduced it to 1.375v. Again could this be the issue?
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