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I hate Windows 10. (Please help me.)

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pwhodges:
I'd go first to the laptop manufacturer's support website, find and download their drivers for the devices in your model, and try those.  It may be that the mere act of reinstalling them fixes things.

My own audio interface has drivers about 10 years old, which is when the manufacturer (Creative) withdrew from the professional market (their E-MU subsidiary).  They now only work if patched by replacing one file with the equivalent from another later SoundBlaster driver - and I have to do a full reinstall and patch for each major Windows upgrade.  It's a pain, but I'd have to spend well over £1000 to get the same functionality with as good quality.

Wingy:
This is why I buy drives in 3s.  I make an image backup before I allow any Msoft updates of any kind, and have had to reimage more than once after updates proved too unstable.  I rotate my backups among the two drives not installed and make sure I've got a backup of C not only on rotating rust in the machine, but also on both backup drives at all times.  Learned my lesson on that after being bit by a particularly nasty virus on WinXP that took a week to partially uninstall enough that I could get my restore tool to work...

hedgie:
I've gotten pretty complacent with that.  I have Time Machine for everything, and then use Tresorit for remote storage of Everything Important.  Hopefully, soon enough, I'll have the money to put a pi and a large HDD in a colo running Nextcloud as well.

Thrillho:
Great recommendation from Paul, there.

Ran the diagnostic through the website for the manufacturer, and it has detected a hardware problem with both microphone and speakers  :psyduck:

The battery in this thing crapped out a while ago, and I have been running it plugged it as it won't stay on otherwise. I guess it's starting to just crap out piece by piece.

cybersmurf:
Sorry to hear it's starting to fail beyond battery issues. You still could try going back, sometimes Windows issues may appear as hardware issues (like the diagnostic tool not seeing speakers and mic in the windows device list, marking it down as hardware issue), as software might not get far enough through the HAL (no, not 2001's HAL, but the Hardware Abstraction Layer) to detect actual hardware issues. You might even want to try and turn off the audio chip in BIOS/UEFI, boot windows, and then turn it on again in the BIOS/UEFI. Sometimes that can help too (it's like remove it and plug it in again).

I've only replaced one PC - well mainboard, but often that's considered the core - due to failing from age. One laptop had its GPU die from thermal issues, another laptop i replaced with the end of Windows XP and the lack of power for 7, and then I destroyed a mainboard by being stupid and re-settling the heat sink in a not good way.

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