The platform is up, but one dependency path is not.

Use this when recovery prompts spike after otherwise routine hardware or firmware work across managed endpoints. These issues are easy to misread because the operating system still responds while one control path, runtime dependency, or trust assumption is already out of alignment.

The symptom usually appears downstream from the real change.

• BitLocker assumptions are often changed indirectly by updates, policy, hardware changes, or cleanup work that looked harmless at the time.
• TPM assumptions are often changed indirectly by updates, policy, hardware changes, or cleanup work that looked harmless at the time.
• Firmware assumptions are often changed indirectly by updates, policy, hardware changes, or cleanup work that looked harmless at the time.
• Windows assumptions are often changed indirectly by updates, policy, hardware changes, or cleanup work that looked harmless at the time.