The update was a BIOS update and it bricked the new board

So that's what killed his old board

No POST. Dead.

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

I do have a spare machine that's the same model but has a type C port

Fingers crossed it'll work

The real gore is my camera not focusing

"revived"

Revived my old Motorola. I cant belive the touchscreen is fully working. Might do something funny to it later and see how it will hold.