So I was using my new framework laptop 12 with fedora. I had been using it perfectly fine, up until today, but when I went to turn it on, the power button LED just stayed on for a few seconds and then would turn off. Nothing would display on the screen at all, and I could not F key into the BIOS at all. After trying a few times, the power button LED stopped turning on all together. I am sure the battery is fully charged. I’m not sure what happened or what to do. I did see the flashing error lights blinking at one time, but it never did it again and I could not remember what the error code was.
The bottom of the laptop feels warm to the touch even though I have only ever been just trying to turn it on, and it has not been running at all today.
I know you said the battery is fully charged, but have you tried with it plugged in, or only on battery?
It might be worth opening it up and re-seating RAM, SSD, and checking things like the display cable and such. If you have already done that or aren’t comfortable trying those things, I would open a support ticket.
Welcome to the community! Good luck. I hope you get it solved.
For the display to not even post means that the GPU initialization is not happening, which is usually because system RAM did not initialize. Please reseat your system RAM. DDR5 5200/5600 is very finicky. (Ask me how I know, hahaha)
If your NVME went bad, your system would still post and you’d be able to get to the UEFI options, etc. Which is why I think your system RAM is the culprit here.
Something similar happened to me, but I believe it was the bug in 3.03 and earlier BIOS versions that was fixed in 3.04 (which is triggered by trying to power up soon after unplugging) - just in case this has caused it for you, I was able to get it to boot again by plugging it back in and trying again.
Thank you! Yes I ended up opening a support ticket. I re plugged everything and reseated the RAM, and now the power button LED isn’t even turning on anymore.
This is a description of the issue from Bios version 3.0.3 that was fixed with 3.0.4:
This firmware update updates PD firmware to 0.0.12 which fixes the following issue: When the system is powered down, then AC is disconnected, the power button won’t turn on the system after 10s until 30 seconds
So if it does not boot after 30+ seconds of waiting it might be a different issue.
My motherboard just went bad. I never knew what BIOS I was running on the old one, or if that was even the root cause. But I just got the motherboard replaced after working with FW Support and sending them videos of the troubleshooting.