Touchpad not working consistently on Win 11 - I2C HID Device not working

[SteveT_111]

I have an HP Pavilion x360 14-dy1097nr. With Windows 11 the Elan I2C touchpad frequently stops working, which causes the mouse pointer to completely disappear. When it stops working, in the Device Manager the 'I2C HID Device' usually has a yellow exclamation point and the Device Status says "This device cannot start. (Code 10). A request for the HID descriptor failed". If I drop into the BIOS, the touchpad works so I know the physical device is working.Sometimes a reboot fixes it, sometimes it doesn't. I did a full reset of Windows 11 this week. I tried updating the driver (10.0.22621.25

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