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Wife's computer is acting up. The Dell Inspiron 2-in 1 would start booting, and then turn off just before Windows 10 starts. I noted that the port for her charger was loose, and there seemed to be issues with the charging. I put in a new port, and just for luck, I got a new battery. That fixed everything until it started the same behavior again. As I was "fixing" it, I put it back together once without plugging in the battery. It happily booted repeatedly with the charger providing power. I plugged in the battery and it was working again. Until it didn't. I decided to get a complete backup, and when I booted, it went into the Dell version of "Repair", and behaved normally. It scanned the hardware and found "Cable issues" and popped a QR code that pointed to a Dell website which gave no help that I could find. I went ahead to try to create a backup, and found that a Macrium boot SD card ran happily, and the backup is running now. My question: is this really a hardware issue? Is there a reason Macrium, and the repair function would run without problems while windows needs some bit of hardware that is broke? My feeling is that this is software, and possibly the bios getting corrupted. Should I start right off by downloading the latest bios, or should I go to restoring a backup of the Windows partition? Or.... ?
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