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

The 2023 Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040-series chips. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Some Framework Laptop 13 owners with last-gen AMD chips have reported that a caller BIOS update is bricking their laptops connected some Windows and Linux. The BIOS update causing this contented is mentation 3.20 for Ryzen 7040-series mainboards, released backmost successful July and still disposable connected Framework's site astatine the clip of this writing. Upon moving the update, immoderate users reported their laptops getting stuck connected the update screen.

While immoderate users connected Framework's assemblage forums reported that the institution was sending them replacement mainboards nether the one-year warranty, several with out-of-warranty boards said they were told they'd person to bargain caller ones. …

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