Solved Bluetooth ON-Off toggle disappeared on my GMKtec device

My ASUS laptop (not plugged in) is not affected.
There had been a power cut at about 06:00 but the computer was 99% certain to be off albeit plugged into the power supply. I say 99% because I always switch my device off by 8pm and I don’t think I could have left it on all night.

I tried fixing things by: -

1. Updating drivers
2. Ensuring Bluetooth services were running.
3. sfc /scannow
4. Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore
5. Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
6. Dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth
7. Also tried a restore from a Macrium image but no different.

An in-place repair-install fixed it.

I spent over 6 hours to fix it and I still don’t know the cause.

After a restart I created another Full Image using Macrium Reflect so all is okay again.

Question - I haven’t messed about with Bluetooth so is it possible for a power cut to cause corruption in a switched-off device?

wiganken said:

An in place repair install fixed it.

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wiganken said:

I haven’t messed about with Bluetooth so is it possible for a power cut to cause corruption in a switched-off device?

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It's an electronic device and it's windows so while I would say it's not likely if the device was switched off, I would never say never.
Glad you got it back to working though. Do you use a good surge protector?

wiganken said:

1. Also tried a restore from a Macrium image but no different.

An in place repair install fixed it.

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This would indicate to me that there's a good possibility there was an issue with BT adapter even before the Macrium image was made. Since you do not appear to use any BT device, maybe there's been an issue with it for a while.

glasskuter said:

Do you use a good surge protector?

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Thanks for the reply. Yes I use a surge protector and it's showing a green light on it so that indicates it is doing its job.

glasskuter said:

Since you do not appear to use any BT device, maybe there's been an issue with it for a while.

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That's the strange thing. I was only using my Bluetooth speaker the day before and it was fine. That's why I thought the Macrium image restore would bring it back. Weird.
It was Device Manager showing STATUS_DEVICE_POWER_FAILURE that made me suspect it was the 6am power cut related. Just guessing.

At least it's fixed. Thanks for your time.