I had virtually the same problem when I got my new dell pc with WIN 10 in Jan, Feb. Updates, restarting, each morning, whatever, the audio was gone. I just kept going thru the different lists for optimizing the pc and eventually, it stopped losing the drivers and I would have sound in the morning and even after restarting. I have always let my pcs go to sleep and I still do, I didn't know that was an issue. I can't say what solved it, but it wasn't the sleep nor the USB 3 port (mine were not set for disabling) because I kept those, but after a couple of weeks something must have worked in the settings and all seems good now for at least a month. The one horrible thing is windows updates because I never know when that is happening and all of a sudden in the middle of work the pc will stop functioning completely, can't even bring up control panel. I will attempt to restart and then it will tell me it is configuring updates. It often takes hours and then to restart will go black for about an hour, then restart and take about another hour to come to a login screen. It's a horrible experience. But I do have audio after that so OK, whatever, I guess there's nothing much more I can do. Your issue could well be what is mentioned above or maybe just some other setting like fast startup...I wish you well, it isn't fun to go through.