Zoom constantly crashes or has audio/microphone issues. Restarting the computer only sometimes helps temporarily.
HP Envy Laptops with AMD Processors/Graphics
Zoom or other web conferencing applications
There are many forums posts both on HP's website and on Microsoft Community forums about this. Many recommend downloading drivers from AMD directly. For the first issue I had with this, installing the latest "recommended" (not "optional") driver from AMD fixed it. At the time of writing this, that was version 20.9.1. Linked websites below:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/audio-crashes-with-zoomvideo-conferencing/18a52b8a-94c2-480b-a2c6-ba6cf455904c
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Audio/Audio-driver-issues-envy-15m-ee0013dx/td-p/7757580/page/9
https://www.amd.com/en/support/apu/amd-ryzen-processors/amd-ryzen-7-mobile-processors-radeon-graphics/amd-ryzen-7-4700u