Ok build went smooth, then I got to figure out a red / blue code and realized I had not fully seated a memory model.
Next for those of you trying to move a drive with Windows 10 / 11 install from another computer into the Framework 16…just know about DDU if it was intel or Nvidia and you are going AMD. That saved me ton of issues.
Everything else was just 5 months of updates, installing the driver pack and doing the bios update. Track pad is still not working, nor are the keyboard backlights so opened a ticket for that. The real pain came from Microsoft. Turns out I have been using the same license from win 7 since 3 laptops ago. Further it started life out as an OEM license, but the free upgrade to win 10 made it forget it was OEM. However trying to get this working on the new Framework got me to buy a license from the MS store and then call MS for 6 hours over 4 calls trying to get that installed.
For the love of all that is holly, just buy a license key from some one other than the MS store. Amazon or Framework would have been more pain free than anything MS made me go through! So frame work 8/10…Microsoft 2/100
According to the tracking history mine has gone from Taiwan → Philippines → China → India → UAE.
Are FedEx being useless as usual (Destination is the UK) or are they all going through Asia?
About 45 minutes ago it changed from “On the way - Dubai World Central” to “On the way -Dubai World Central (DWC)”
I’ve been tracking a FedEx flight from Dubai to Paris with Flightradar24 but I’m now doubting mine’s on that aeroplane.
No that is the route my Batch 12 took too. It seems the plane stops off in India and UAE to drop off and pick up other freight. Then it stops at Paris where the UK items get seperated from the European freight.
The Taiwan->Phillipines->China is because they don’t do a direct flight between Taiwan and China for obvious political reasons.
Hi.
I get the feeling FW wish us to read the instructions before we start!
I have received 2 emails now from them mentioning it, one in the shipping email, and another today.ETA for FW16 for me in on the 24-May-2024. I.e. 2 days from now.
I will be reading them while my FW16 laptop gets over its jet lag and world tour of countries between Taiwan and UK.
I installed the driver pack from the latest pack, and bios 3.03. When that did not worked I moved the track pad to the right (it won’t latch in if I try far left), and still nothing. I also have rebooted after every change, and fast boot is off.
I then tried letting the laptop fully discharge, and still nothing….so then I extracted the driver pack and tried manually installing it. No dice. At no point has it shown any signs of life.
Now a Bluetooth trackball works just fine, and is the preferred pointing device…so I am waiting to see if this is driver, win 11, or hardware issue.
P.S. the keyboard works, but I can’t get the backlight to work as well. Space + FN makes the backlight flash, but does not turn on or adjust the level.
So something else may be going on with my mid plate.
Pp.S. I have hit this install with sfc /scannow and all the normal commands plus a reg dive, and at this point I am stumped…hence why asking support for help.
When I took off the metal frame to get my RAM and SSD installed, I accidently pulled off the connector to the IO bus that connects the keyboard and the trackpad/etc to the system. They designed it nicely with a ribbon cable that lets loose vs ripping (thanks Framework!) but the connector where the ribbon goes between the motherboard and metal frame could be loose, which might explain the problems you’re having. I’d double check that.
I did this as well, after forgetting to unplug the connector (Item 1), because I had left the midplate screws undone while I fiddled back and forth with different SSDs. I ended up giving up and waiting for daylight, along with a good head magnifier so I could see that I was getting the cable into the connector on the midplate properly - it has to be properly dead square on and pushed right home before putting the clamp down, THEN stick the cable to the sticky stuff on the midplate.
