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    Bad motherboard or bad battery on an Alienware 17r2 laptop?

    Hi there! Today I powered on my laptop and received the following: "Your battery has experienced permanent failure and needs to be replaced. Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility." After pressing F1 (and plugged in) the system powered on like normal. What I found odd was...