Happened again, dead motherboard battery. My Dell had it happen and not my MSI B450 Tomahawk Max 2 has a dead fucking battery and just after 6 months. Well I thought I was hacked or had a root kit or that the quality of linux had shit the bed. My mouse clicks and wifi adapter and keyboard all usb were acting funny, my OS was slow as fuck, and then I tried to do an install and the drive was locked and I found out that it will not unlock till I have another battery with a charge in the motherboard. I was bullshit, I've been distro hopping because of distro's acting flaky and come to find out the battery was shit in the board. I then went online to find one and then come to find out that a lot of resellers are selling ones that are dead and refurbished aka recharged but a button cell unless marked rechargable might last a month. I think MSI bought a shitload of used but with a charge cells at super low prices or the sellers online put the old ones in and kept the new ones if they ever had new ones at all. I also found that the batteries marked durocell and ever ready and even sony might have been sitting in warehouses for years and the resellers are selling them and if the warehouse is basically not climate controlled as in really hot and cold mattering the season batteries will go dead far sooner than they will in a 60 to 80 degree controlled storage facility. BTW I am glad of the live usbs I had lying around for emergencies. I used one to burn another 5 onto superfast usb 3.2 sandisk ultra and amazingly they are as fast even to boot as my SSD was, I just have to write down new passwords immediately into my notebook so I can recopy them onto my new OS when the battery is installed. What is fucked up is that I have to check and update the time at least one time per day or internet sites load super slow since the time for packets recieved my system sends to the server is off a bit so the server is like wtf is your time dilation dude " I garnished up that last tech part". I notice about a month ago my time would be off once in a while so I would just check it out. I was looking around for the locked drive and found a lot of users nowadays are getting computers where the batteries last less than 6 months. I think it's time for the manufacturers to test batteries first to see if they have at least 3 volts and more like 3.3 to 3.5 is better showing a full charge and a relatively newly manufactured battery. I'm betting if I took my battery and tested it I would see around .5 or less so it basically isn't doing shit in the system except not showing a charge. I think though cannot prove it that the battery was virtually dead when I recieved it. I remember trying to install a distro so I started my PC and then it installed the system but it ran like shit. I then went into bios for some message about 32bit when installing something and it was in not uefi but windows friendly CRM and the virtualization was off and I remember setting it to the on position the day before. It was then I realized it only fucked up when off no restarting but totally off since I guess a residual charge holds for long enough to restart but stut down for a minute and the system forgets all it's settings in the bios. So all my frustration was a dead fucking battery from a shitty fucking cheap motherfucking motherboard manufacturer.