Can a bad sound circuit on the mobo cause these crashes?

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I'm running win10 Pro on a recently bought refurbished HP Elitedesk 800 G1, which was designed for win7 but has a new SDD and a 1T HDD, sold by an Amazon refurbisher. It had one scuff and otherwise looks like new, inside and out. It's not overclocked yet.

It runs great compared to what I had, but has crashed about 7 times in 3 months, which the previous computers didn't do, and has damaged some data in the process. I forget how to find the crash data.

Every time it crashes I'm playing webradio, but that might not mean much since I always am. Usually I'm running RadioMaximus, but the last time I was just playing the sound from a webpage using Firefox. Radiomaximus hadn't been started since windows was booted.

However before if fully crashes, it freezes and the sound is either playing a continuous low pitch tone, maybe 100mhz, or it's playing 2 syllables over and over and over, whawhawhawhawha... for up to 15 minutes until I stopped it.

Does this sound problem indicate the computer problem is in the sound circuit, and could be fixed by installing a sound card to use in place of the mobo circuit. I don't assume it's that closely related, but someone told me it was. I thought the problem could still be anywhere.

Thanks for any help you can give me.
 
Full blue screen of death crash? If so, update the sound drivers.

I did update the drivers a month ago. Only had 6 files listed to begin with. Now has about 55 !

No, it never gives a blue screen. Just freezes and I have to power off to restart.
Also, it runs about 96-98^ F, which doesn't seem hot.

Thanks for the replies.
 
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