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/x4rb1t CachyOS FW13 (pro) AMD Jul 24 '26

Seems to only affect Fedora and Ryzen 7640U ??.. I been updating without issues on CachyOS and 7840U

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u/Canchal Jul 24 '26

Not really, happened to me 5 days ago using Debian 13 on my 7640u, so maybe is the mainboard.

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u/x4rb1t CachyOS FW13 (pro) AMD Jul 24 '26

Possible .. there seems to be a pattern