Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops
throwaway2037
12 points
2 comments
August 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
hokage-at-leaf
The customer-service response here is good, but I think the more interesting issue is recoverability.
chews
It’s good they’re doing something, its a bummer it took bad press to get them to do it… youd think theyd have a JTAG internally in their workshop