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This customer came in to get his no-post gaming laptop repaired
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We determined it was something fucked on the motherboard
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So we sent the motherboard off to china for a replacement, took over a month
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I get the new board back, I install it, and it works
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Then it says "shut down and update"
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Not having any other option, I let it run the update
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The update was a BIOS update and it bricked the new board
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So that's what killed his old board
TechGore
is there no way to manually flash the bios?
Not if it doesn't fucking POST
All I can do is find/make a dump of the SPI BIOS chip, which will carry over the serial and UUID
All I can do is find/make a dump of the SPI BIOS chip, which will carry over the serial and UUID