If it were breaking hardware it would persist through the reinstall. But since the day I got it, it’s done this kind of thing about every six months and every time, a reinstall fixes it. For about six months, and then I need to do it again.
Work laptop has done a little better but if memory serves they did have to reinstall it about a year ago. I only use very bland software on that.
Well you may be partly right. Two weeks after reinstalling Win11 it's exhibiting frequent lockups and audio dying--often on the same day. Clearly some issues were resolved with reinstall (so those were software-caused), but potentially not all of the issues. I'll have to reinstall it once more to confirm.
That, or I'm installing some software causing this. I don't install weird software, and it was software that I had used in Win10 on another laptop, so that's probably not it.
Work laptop has done a little better but if memory serves they did have to reinstall it about a year ago. I only use very bland software on that.