Thanks for doing that.
it at least shows the battery itself can be in either state, show or don’t show voltage on the output.
not sure how to open up the battery to get at the cells in a reversible manor.
I’ve never gotten into the bios. so I didn’t do battery disconnect the laptop just sat for a while.
so, i guess without opening the battery up, or learning how to communicate with it via SMBus i can’t conclude wether it’s bad or not. nor can I be sure wether a bad battery would be the reason for my boot up problems but I’ll continue trying to debug in that thread and with support and see if it leads back to the battery or not.