Expansion ports 1 and 2 stopped working

I took the laptop out of my bag and plugged it into power but didn’t not wake it. It was in sleep mode. I come back the next day and realized the laptop was shut down and at 10% power when I booted up. Turns out that ports 1 and 2 stopped working. This laptop has been rock solid since I got in Feb.

I moved expansion cards around and have the same issues in both Linux and windows. Ports 1 and 2 just don’t work. I did the battery disconnect in the bios, took the battery out for 30 minutes, downgraded to BIOS 3.06 and then back to 4.01 and none of that corrected the issue. I have a support ticket started but wanted to check to see if any of y’all have any sage advice on something else I can try.

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Does the laptop charge on the other side?

Check if the LED between those ports at least flashes when you’re powering up or down with the cable plugged in to any of them.

Were you using a Framework charger or the Delta Charger? I had a 240W delta USB-C charger go nuts frying gear after owning it for a couple years. It also fried a couple of my expansion cards. I had to replace my expansion cards (yes the USB-C ones) and it even damaged my old FW16 board. Took the chance to upgrade and ordered a FW 240W power brick instead.

Thanks for replies. I’m using the framework 240W power supply. The 1 and 2 ports were completely dead. Got nothing out of them.

I contacted support, did a mobo reset, and after a bunch of pics they replaced the motherboard under warranty. It was a hardware failure of some nature. Support was pretty quick to make a decision and get a new board to me. Still a little leery that I had a failure 8 months in but time will tell if it was a fluke or now. At least its and easy job to replace it.