Yes, that has been my guess as well. I kept the battery but did not
switch the system on. Shall do it the next time I try it.

I looked for the CMOS battery too but I assume Fujitsu soldered it and hid it 
away. Also the CL1 CL2 pins weren't under the RAM area in my laptop, they were 
adjacent to it. Ofcourse I would still remove the RAM before shorting but I 
agree that this is not the way to try and make this work. Fujitsu should fix 
their BIOS/UEFI soon.
If I ever get back my BIOS, that is the first thing I would do - disable UEFI 
and install everything in legacy mode. It's a no-brainer now.

I expected to see the firmware's entry in GRUB at the very least; this
led me to the /etc/grub.d/30_uefi_firmware shell script. I noticed that
the 'efi_vars_dir' points to a location that doesn't exist. It looks for
/sys/firmware/efi/vars while in my machine it is
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars. It is empty though, so I didn't give it any
more thought. But looking at that kernel patch talking about efi vars, I
am not so sure now.

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  Ubuntu UEFI install locks out UEFI firmware (~bios) access

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