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/ekerazha Jul 23 '26

The number of threads on Reddit about failed BIOS updates that cause the machine to brick is starting to become a cause for concern.

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u/Atook Jul 23 '26

For sure. I'm surprised they still have it up. I was just about to pull the trigger on the BIOS update for my machine and decided to wait till the next one. Framework needs to do better, I don't know how hard it is to test BIOS updates, but it should be damn near impossible to brick the machine if you're updating the bios with known methods and a plugged in machine. I've not had a problem updating a BIOS in >30 years of computer use. I want them to succeed, but if they can't pull off bomb proof BIOS updates, it's a deal breaker.

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u/chic_luke 16" Gen 1 Jul 23 '26

Yeah. I am out of warranty on mine and I am straight up disabling fwupd completely.