My brother has Windows 7 installed on his Ryzen 3 PC as he tries to avoid Windows 10 at all costs. He knows his configuration is not fully supported, without modified drivers at least (Gigabyte A320M-S2H, Ryzen 3 3200G, 240GB Kingston SSD, 16GB (2x8GB) G.Skill Aegis DDR4 3200MHz RAM). And yes, he has an antivirus installed.
Recently, he started having problems with audio, where it cuts off for no apparent reason. For example, any YouTube video he is watching stops immediately with the buffering animation showing and every audio-related process freezes. The shutdown process even stopped once with a status of "playing logoff sound" in the "waiting for background programs to close" screen.
We have narrowed it down to the audiodg.exe process, so he created a batch file to kill it and then restart it. It restores the audio most of the times, but not always. The weird thing is that Windows 7 was functioning totally fine before this issue, with the same audio and graphics drivers installed (and re-installed at one time), so the OS might not have anything to do with it. Plus, Gigabyte themselves supplied Realtek HD audio drivers for Windows 7 in the driver disc that came with the motherboard.
He has asked the same question elsewhere before, but they just told him to "upgrade to Windows 10" without any speculation on what the issue could be.
As upgrading to Windows 10 is not really an option (because he can be pretty stubborn sometimes), is there anything that can be done with his current Windows 7 installation to restore audio functionality back to normal?
Recently, he started having problems with audio, where it cuts off for no apparent reason. For example, any YouTube video he is watching stops immediately with the buffering animation showing and every audio-related process freezes. The shutdown process even stopped once with a status of "playing logoff sound" in the "waiting for background programs to close" screen.
We have narrowed it down to the audiodg.exe process, so he created a batch file to kill it and then restart it. It restores the audio most of the times, but not always. The weird thing is that Windows 7 was functioning totally fine before this issue, with the same audio and graphics drivers installed (and re-installed at one time), so the OS might not have anything to do with it. Plus, Gigabyte themselves supplied Realtek HD audio drivers for Windows 7 in the driver disc that came with the motherboard.
He has asked the same question elsewhere before, but they just told him to "upgrade to Windows 10" without any speculation on what the issue could be.
As upgrading to Windows 10 is not really an option (because he can be pretty stubborn sometimes), is there anything that can be done with his current Windows 7 installation to restore audio functionality back to normal?