I have been having some issues powering on my laptop for about a month. Every weekend, I try to turn on my laptop, and it refuses to do anything. Some mixture of removing parts like the SSD, RAM, or WiFi card seemed for a while to help, but every time, I would still need to plug in the laptop.
After contacting support, they said that the RTC battery was likely dead, and to leave the laptop charging for 24 hours for the RTC battery to recharge.
The battery is rated for 3V, but after charging for around 30 hours with the Framework power brick, it is only at 2.81V when read with a voltmeter. It does seem to charge about 0.02V higher with around 12 hours of charging from what I’ve seen on my laptop, and I was wondering if anyone else might have had similar power issues, or if the charge rate for my RTC battery was too slow.
It could be that they don’t expect the battery to need a full charge with frequent use. I also have the charge limit for the laptop set to 80%, so I was also wondering if it may charge faster with the laptop battery at 100% which could be an oversight in the BIOS update or something like that.
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