I used to take the long route of physically disconnecting the drive with windows when installing a Linux partition until I realized there wasn’t anything of use for me in windows, so I backed up some documents and removed windows completely from my desktop.

Had something similar happen to me a couple of days ago setting up a new desktop, micro freeze and an input being repeated. Turned out the ram was a little bit over the stable clock. Reverted the typo on memory clock and all’s fine now. Don’t know if you control that in you laptop tho