Laptop won't power on unless i plug in AC power

[lbkNhubert]

@Stephen_Manis - is the RTC battery holder properly connected to the main board? If you go poking around at it, be careful, it is fragile.

See this thread for reference about not booting without AC present:

Can't wake or boot without AC present

Could you boot into BIOS and check the system clock there, and then power off, wait 10 minutes, and boot into BIOS again and check the system clock again? If there is an RTC battery issue, the clock would show the same time twice rather than progressing by 10 minutes. We saw one other instance of this on a unit. We would also recommend writing into support with the results of this: Framework | Support

and this procedure re the RTC battery:

How do I replace the RTC Battery in my Framework Laptop?