• carrylex@lemmy.worldOP
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    17 days ago

    Yes, multiple of our Windows laptops today couldn’t boot and displayed a BitLocker error message and all affected laptops somehow had an empty BIOS battery…

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        17 days ago

        AFAIK a new battery + entering the Bitlocker recovery key fixed the problems.

        Usually these batteries hold for years. I have a 15+ year old laptop where I had to replace the battery after ~10 years.

        However the affected laptops are now a few years old, aren’t designed properly (I heard weird stuff happening like adding additional RAM somehow causes the display to fail) and somehow just have a CR2016 battery installed, not a bigger CR2032. And yes these are buisness-laptops designed for companies -.-