I also went through this procedure, but I noticed some things that I did not expect based on the instructions. I think the reset was successful eventually (though I did this because of issues with my microphone, which were not fixed, but that was a long shot anyway).
I wanted to go into detail about what I observed in this comment, but it seems the character limit won't let me. The short story is that the leds did not exactly behave as documented, partly because the laptop powered on when I plugged in AC (which is a setting I have enabled in the BIOS, though it seems weird that that BIOS setting was preserved at step 7, and reset like all BIOS settings at the end of the procedure).
I wrote down more details at https://gist.github.com/matthijskooijman... but I mostly suspect that maybe these instructions should be reviewed with the "power on AC" setting enabled. Or maybe the difference is that my battery and/or RTC were not empty, but still charged?
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I also went through this procedure, but I noticed some things that I did not expect based on the instructions. I think the reset was successful eventually (though I did this because of issues with my microphone, which were not fixed, but that was a long shot anyway).
I wanted to go into detail about what I observed in this comment, but it seems the character limit won't let me. The short story is that the leds did not exactly behave as documented, partly because the laptop powered on when I plugged in AC (which is a setting I have enabled in the BIOS, though it seems weird that that BIOS setting was preserved at step 7, and reset like all BIOS settings at the end of the procedure).
I wrote down more details at https://gist.github.com/matthijskooijman... but I mostly suspect that maybe these instructions should be reviewed with the "power on AC" setting enabled. Or maybe the difference is that my battery and/or RTC were not empty, but still charged?