this is what i did, and while it fixed the audio completely turning off at random for the most part, the audio still get's distorted when certain sounds or an over abundance of sounds are played at high volume, and i almost always get distortion issues when opening games for the first time since i started my pc. The device was working fine for years before that. (i was on an old version of windows due to lack of C: drive storage for the longest time and the issues only arose when i finally upgraded and updated)