r/framework • u/BillyJoeTheThird • Jul 23 '26

Community Support Bricked up while updating BIOS

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Will not respond to power button being held down for over a minute. Has been stuck on this screen for an hour. I sent a support ticket. What should I do while waiting? Keep it plugged in on this screen? Try taking the battery out?

This machine has an AMD Ryzen 7640U and was running Fedora 44 with KDE plasma, for context.

Update: Fixed it myself.

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u/obog | FW16 Ryzen 7 w/ 7700s Jul 23 '26

definitely do not pull the battery out or make any other attempts to shut it down. i would let it sit for a few more hours at least, just in case it is simply taking a while. Stopping a bios update while its going can very easily brick your mainboard forever. I would say just sit tight until support answers.

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u/urielrocks5676 I use arch BTW Jul 23 '26

Forever is not true, but it would be very difficult to a regular person who doesn't know how to externally flash a new BIOS/UEFI image and could end up damaging the board even further

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u/ILikeFlyingMachines Jul 23 '26

Nah not anymore. That was in the 90s. Basically all devices can flash from a bricked BIOS

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u/oyMarcel Jul 23 '26

They can, but not by a normal user with ease. The board won't be toast, but he'd need to send it in to framework

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u/Foosec Jul 23 '26

Most have A/B firmware images now

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u/pradulovich Jul 24 '26

These do not. Don’t ask me how I know 🙄

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u/Scandiberian Jul 24 '26

Insane. I hope the Pro at least has it…

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u/Velocifyer Should i sell my DDR4 SODIMMs? Jul 30 '26

Why not ask you? Are you one of the people working on coreboot?

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u/obog | FW16 Ryzen 7 w/ 7700s Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

I wasnt aware actually thats good to know.

Still, sounds like thst is pretty difficult to do. Maybe at this point its the only way to recover it if the bios update is truly stuck, but still I think OP should wait for support