My graphics driver keeps crashing

[deadmoo5e]

In the event manager it says  'amdkmdap has stopped responding, and it has been recovered' Sometimes that error is listed twice or three times right after eachother with the same timestamp or a few seconds apart.

 

When it happens my monitors flicker and then go black for a few seconds before coming back on. After it crashes I'll have to reload any chrome tabs with webms running.

 

What I've tried to do is always having the newest drivers installed and I've done two clean installs of Windows 10. 

 

What's weird is that this issue disappeared completely for two weeks before it came back again after my machine got a unrecoverable error on my SSD and I had to reinstall windows . It rarely crashes during gameplay. But when it does it seems to be older titles. Like Half Life 2 Episode 2 and the Half Life Lost Coast benchmark.

 

One time it seemed to cause a BSOD. I'm including the .dmp file if there are any windows gurus here who could take a look at it for me. 

 

Anyone who knows what could be causing this?

 

My hardware

 

CPU                 Intel i7 4770k
Motherboard  Asus Maximus VI Formula
RAM                Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB 1866MHz
GPU                Asus Radeon R9 Fury Strix
Case               Fractal Design R5
Storage          OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
PSU                Corsair AX 750

WLAN            Asus PCE-AC68
Display          BenQ XL2420Z
Cooling         Corsair H100i
Keyboard      Logitech G710+
Mouse           Logitech G400

Operating System  Windows 10 Home

022717-5281-01.dmp

[deadmoo5e]

No takers?

[RIris]

I had the same issue. actually i fixed it like 30 minutes ago. just download an updated version of your display driver, install it after the download is finished. i hope i helped

[0x1e]

I had that problem.

GPU was dying. So for me there was no fix apart from an RMA. Since then (around 7 months) I have had 0 problems.

[deadmoo5e]

3 hours ago, 0x1e said:

I had that problem.

GPU was dying. So for me there was no fix apart from an RMA. Since then (around 7 months) I have had 0 problems.

Starting to think that must be it. I was in the process of making an RMA case when the problem disappeared. Sometimes I feel like my computer is playing mind games with me. Did you also have a Radeon card?

5 hours ago, RIris said:

I had the same issue. actually i fixed it like 30 minutes ago. just download an updated version of your display driver, install it after the download is finished. i hope i helped

I've had this issue with several driver versions. Since october last year actually. Always had my drivers up to date.

[0x1e]

On 3/2/2017 at 0:35 PM, deadmoo5e said:

Starting to think that must be it. I was in the process of making an RMA case when the problem disappeared. Sometimes I feel like my computer is playing mind games with me. Did you also have a Radeon card?

 

I've had this issue with several driver versions. Since october last year actually. Always had my drivers up to date.

No, Mine was Nvidia, EVGA.

Turns out (after many months of hair pulling testing) that the GPU worked fine as long as GPU power didn't change.

If I forced it on 2d, 3d or full taps 100% of the time then it would work flawlessly. However GPU's don't work like that, they change as they see fit. So in a loading screen for instance it would be on 2d, then the game loads now the core switches to 3d but the power delivery wouldn't keep up. That would cause the GPU core to crash as if an overclock failed forcing the drivers to fail. It would either reset fine, drivers wouldn't recover properly, wouldn't recover at all and leave me with a solid coloured screen or a whole system crash.

It would work fine sometimes for days on end. Some times it wouldn't boot at all into windows.

First it was driver crashes, then system crashes, then system failing to boot sometimes, then the system wouldn't detect the GPU and instead spit out "Standard VGA", then finally I couldn't install any GPU driver and finally the system wouldn't post at all.

This went on for months. Each step took roughly 2 weeks - 1 month to go from one to the other.