Frequent system crashes - audio failure?

[MaxAN_942]

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?

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