Framework says it’s addressing a BIOS update that bricked some of its older laptops

Antonio G. Di Benedetto is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021.

Some Framework Laptop 13 owners with last-gen AMD chips have reported that a recent BIOS update is bricking their laptops on both Windows and Linux. The BIOS update causing this issue is version 3.20 for Ryzen 7040-series mainboards, released back in July and still available on Framework’s site at the time of this writing. Upon running the update, some users reported their laptops getting stuck on the update screen.

While some users on Framework’s community forums reported that the company was sending them replacement mainboards under the one-year warranty, several without-of-warranty boards said they were told they’d have to buy new ones. A few were able to take matters into their own handswith external BIOS...

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