Every “generation” can work without a battery, but I thought the initial, 11th gen Intel mainboards initially required a firmware update in order to work “standalone.” I could be wrong, but I thought there was talk about that when they first released. People were wanting to use the boards in projects and such without a battery, and Framework had to add the ability to work without a battery to the firmware. Maybe I’m misremembering.
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In the notes from BIOS 3.06 for the 11th gen Intel boards it says they “added initial support” for booting without a battery. So I was remembering correctly. I don’t think the very first mainboards could boot without a battery until after this BIOS update. If you had a batch 4 machine and never updated it, it’s possible it had an earlier BIOS and couldn’t boot without a battery.
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Ok, so that theory’s back on the table. thanks.
my laptop was shipped about 10 days before that bios update announcement.