I have an i3 first gen board that I enabled standalone mode on in the BIOS (version 3.0.9) and installed in a 3d printed case. When I connect power, the LEDs blink red and blue and the board will not power up.
If I remove it from the case an connect my battery, it boots eventually with a screen indicating that my speakers and a few other things aren’t connected. How do I get it working in the Framework 12 - REFINED case?
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First (maybe dumb) question: Have you been pressing the power button when you’re in standalone mode and don’t have a battery connected? I’m assuming yes, but figured I should ask
Also: The 3d-printed top cover half DOES have a piece that should enable actuation of the button on the top-right section of your mainboard, but I’ve had issues with my own 3d-printed cases for FW16 mainboards where the plastic that’s supposed to press that button isn’t at JUST the right tolerance. It may be helpful to slide off that top cover section and physically press the little button on the mainboard with your finger (if you haven’t tried that already).
A picture of where that button specifically is can be found here:
Next: There’s the possibility that you may need to change a BIOS setting to get your mainboard to work in standalone mode. With your battery and a keyboard connected, tap F2 after powering the board on until you get into BIOS, then review the ‘standalone mode’ and ‘standalone mode detection’ choices. Playing with those might get you somewhere, although I’m not entirely sure if any BIOS changes will persist after disconnecting your battery. There’s a bit of text on the Framework Github page for the FW12 mainboards that says the following:
Settings are kept alive by the normal system battery. The only case where an RTC battery is needed, is when the system is used in standalone mode (without a battery).
I haven’t seen people discussing a need for the RTC battery in the FW12 forum section so it MIGHT be that you shouldn’t have any issues not having one installed (and it’s purely for the holdup of BIOS settings that shouldn’t directly affect your ability to rock a standalone mainboard), but it might be something to discuss with Framework Support via the support request form you can find here.
I took the top cover off the case so that I could press the power button directly.
I did set both ‘standalone mode’ and ‘standalone mode detection’ to enabled while the battery was connected.
I don’t have an RTC battery, that could be my problem.
Is standalone detection not enabled by default? I wish I had changed it before swapping out my board then 
. I’ll also be going for that same mainboard case but I won’t be able to try it out until around 1 month-ish so do keep us updated if you figure it out xD
I haven’t been able to get it working standalone without the battery yet.
Standalone detection is enabled by default, standalone mode is not.
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I’ve brought this to the team and will update when I’ve heard back 
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