A few days ago we had a power outage that knocked our whole building offline for quite a few hours. Not sure how long the power was out exactly though. A number of our computers have been plagued with this boot failure ever since. If I go into the BIOS and enable SGX the boot message changes to “recovering journal” but still doesn’t boot. The machine is running Ubuntu 22.04.

I have gone into my BIOS and enabled SGX but it still freezes. I now get a “recovering journal” message. Nothing else seems out of the ordinary. The BIOS was locked down with an administrator password that none of us seemed to know so I had to reset that to make the SGX change. Upon resetting the password I was greeted with a message telling me that the system time was not set and that I needed to run setup on that. I set the time again but it still tells me to set the system time, makes me hit f1 to attempt to boot, and then gets stuck anyway.

I brought the computer to my office to see what else I might be able to do and suddenly it boots up. However, if I bring it back to the office where it is placed it no longer boots.

What exactly is the issue here?