Freezing

Greetings.

Okay, yeah, it's cold. But the title is doing more than hinting at the temps outside. My Inspiron 14 2-in-1 7425 (doing that for search strings) has taken to freezing after boot up and into Win11. Like, completely. Start up seems fine, i've watched with Task Manager to see if anything hikes up memory or CPU and nothing shows. But anywhere from 2 to 7 minutes after logging on it just freezes. Nothing moves. I can alter the keyboard lighting, but that's about it. And here's the kicker - the fan will begin to work harder after it freezes. This seems suspiciously like a failed software download/install, but Win Update doesn't show anything that didn't take. And i haven't updated with 24H2 yet. I had a suspicion this is what it is because i thought i may have lost battery power when an update was being installed. Didn't intend to get one while it was off the cable, but here we are. And i am at a loss. Event viewer doesn't show any crits, nor do there seem to be any hardware malfunctions. But i suppose that could also be a suspect. I've looked around online to see if i was the only one, and it appears not. But it also appears this is something new. And it is - this has now gone on for about 7 days. Any ideas or comments as to what this may be? I plan on going in and regressing an update or two back to some older sys restore point to see if that cures it, but i don't have high hopes for some reason. And there are no other updates optional or otherwise available.

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