Windows 10: Frequent system crashes - audio failure?

For the past few months, my system has been crashing about once a day and I can't for the life of me figure out why. It almost always happens while the computer is sleeping or, at the least, the screen is off. If I'm not mistaken, the laptop is always connected to power when it crashes. The only clue I've been able to find is that in the Reliability Monitor, the crashes are often but not always accompanied by an AUDIODG.EXE crash. Crash dump for AUDIODG.EXE below.


Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Windows\System32\audiodg.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: AUDIODG.EXE
Application Version: 10.0.18362.836
Application Timestamp: 3b8d781d
Fault Module Name: MMDevAPI.DLL
Fault Module Version: 10.0.18362.387
Fault Module Timestamp: 1626851d
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000019a95
OS Version: 10.0.18362.2.0.0.768.101
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: c605
Additional Information 2: c605c41121b7769d9de032b65dc26be2
Additional Information 3: cbed
Additional Information 4: cbedbbf2a1afb448998c539d424e43df
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 2d89af74ded72fa463f1117428b6e477 1436948946704852087



Here's what my Reliability History typically looks like these days.






I've tried reinstalling the audio drivers and swapping them with generic ones or, at least, tried to do so to the best of my ability. Any suggestions?

:)

 

Windows Audio Crashes

My audio stops working when ever a mic is turned on.

On login, audio output works normally, however, when ever any mic is used, both audio input and output crash and a red x shows up on the taskbar audio icon.

It seems the Windows Audio service is what crashes.

After the first crash, the audio does not come back no matter what I do until I restart my pc.

I can replicate this with the following steps:

1. Login to pc
   • audio output working fine
2. Open sound settings, opens to playback tab
   • audio still fine and also able to play test sounds
3. Click on Recording Tab
   • The sound feedback indicator on the right side is missing
   • The window freezes, error window appears about DLL crash
   • If there is no connected or enabled recording device, nothing happens everything else seem to run normally
4. Proceed to follow various trouble shooting steps
   • Some troubleshooting steps seems to get rid of the red x on the taskbar volume icon
   • The recording tab in the sound settings is also now accessible
   • However things may seem fine at first, audio input/output is still not working and playing a test sound fails.

Solutions I've Tried:

• DISM (ended with no errors)
• sfc /scannow (found corrupted files, required restart)
• Restarting Windows Audio Service (results in err 1061, service then gets stuck on stopping)
• Disabling and re-enabling audio drivers
• Reinstalling audio drivers from manufacturers site
• Using windows generic audio drivers
• Restarting my PC

As you can see, I've spent a lot of time trying to fix this issue and it is starting to get really frustrating.

 

all games crash!

I suggest you run rthdribl > http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip
Increase the window size step by step and watch your vga temps permanently.
What happens?
If it crashes, run at stock speeds as suggested before and retry.

P.S.: When your system locks, does the display signal turn off after a time?
Stuttering sound or no sound at all when freezing?
What X1800XT model do you own exactly?

 

Can not record audio.

Hi,

We suggest that you run troubleshooting for Audio Recording by following these steps:

• Type troubleshooting on the search box.
• Click View all.
• Select Recording Audio.
• Follow the steps to troubleshoot Recording Audio.

Let us know if you need further help.