I'm meltinggggggggggggggggggggg my PC

looks like most or all of my PC crashing problems have been caused by over heating
YAY
easy to fix

evidently the tards who write the software for the video card automatic fan setting think ROASTING HOT is an ok temp. (they were running the fan at 15% while the card was 60c YOUCH)

turned it up by hand to 50% and TADA, much cooler, still cant hear squat and tada no crashes since then.

EVEREST ultimate addition
talk about lots of stuff about your PC all in one place
http://www.lavalys.com/

my PC is trying to kill me.

so, my PC continues to do its CRASH thingy. after more google searches, I started to read some of the CLOSE but not quite what I was getting problems.

"PC HANGS but then recovers"

I thought my PC was COMPLETELY dying. but, when it finally happened again, I didnt reboot. I just left it sitting there and waited.

TADA
NEW INFORMATION
my PC "recovered" after a few mins???
"Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered"
got this EXACT thing 3 times last night.
YAY something NEW

search on THIS gave me completely different leads.
from memory setting problems to weird windows patches to loose video card power connectors to wonky power supply problems.

yes all the drivers are up to date

so in some ways this is good news, I have a new msg to research and track down.
rather than a vague feeling that the soundcard/ventrilo were causing crashes.

YAY