Windows 10: Display and audio stop working after 15-30 minutes

I just recently got an old computer that ran windows 7 but had alot of missing features, and after some fiddling with the software and researching different solutions after learning windows 7 lost support, i was able to get it hooked up to the internet via ethernet and installed windows 10 and also factory reset it to make sure i had a clean computer.


Now, the issue i have now hasnt happened before and happened for the first time when i was fiddling with the graphics settings on CS:GO to get it to run smoothly on it when my audio and display cut out. The monitor didnt even recognize that something was plugged into it. This has just happened for the second time after playing a bit of Stardew Valley.


Currently, the PC isnt connected to ethernet and also doesnt have a wifi receiver and again was just converted to windows 10 and then immediately factory reset to clean the drive of any reminants of win 7 or the programs that were on it.


If this is a hardware or software issue, i dont know, but my theory might be hardware because it does get pretty hot and struggles a bit but i dont know how that would affect audio and display. If my theory is correct, then could someone please explain what hardware i need to replace and how i can do so. If it is software, please tell me what drivers or programs are causing it and how to fix it. I would wholeheartedly appreciate your help, as this PC has become a very new passion project of mine.

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Audio is muted after 15-30 minutes of listening to youtube

This one really drives me crazy. Every time I listen music on youtube on my laptop with headsets it somehow gets muted after 15-30 minutes. If I unmute it through the sound control icon in the status bar, it will be muted again in a few seconds. Sometimes changing a track helps me to get another few minutes of uninterrupted audio.

I'm using Win 10, Chrome 58.0.3029.81. I suspect there is a SW that tries to prevent me from long listening period either by monitoring my audio activities, but I can't find anything suspicious in the list of startup/services. Or may be it's something else.

Any recommendations?

 

Windows 10, Windows Audio Service needs to be restarted every 15-30 minutes

I'm on an HP Envy laptop running the latest Windows 10 update.

For a couple months now, I have had the issue where, roughly every 15-30 minutes, whatever device I am currently playing audio out of, be it the integrated speakers, headphones, or hdmi audio output, will suddenly stop. This will only
happen to whichever device was being used to play the audio. If I attempt to play a test tone from the playback menu, I will get a message saying that the device is already in use by another program, even if everything else I can think of is closed. I have
found that when this happens, it also causes Youtube videos to stop playing, which cannot continue to be played until both Windows Audio and the browser have been restarted.

For example, if I am playing audio through a tv connected by hdmi, the tv will stop playing music, but if I switch the audio output to my laptop's speakers, it will continue for another 15-30 minutes, before that too fails, and I have
to restart Windows Audio to get any sound back.

Restarting the computer also fixes the problem temporarily, but it happens again before too long.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Turn off the display: 5 minutes; still on 30 minutes later.

Let's start with the obvious, did you click 'Save changes'?