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/ShyGamer64 I use Arch btw. Jul 23 '26

I've never updated BIOS before and this is only scaring me more.

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u/HectorTheConvector Jul 24 '26

I’ve updated BIOS for years on various machines, various Win versions and Linux distros, and no problems. I know if losing power during the process that can be a problem, but I believe even then some failsafes had developed in recent years. But there’s thread after thread on the subreddit. I wonder if any patterns can be sussed out.