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18 Aug 2026, 9:18 PM	Hacker News	7.5	Fixing a bricked Framework laptop A Framework 13 AMD 7040 series laptop was bricked by BIOS update 3.20, and Framework support offered no fix outside of buying a CA$500 replacement motherboard despite widespread reports of the same issue since March 2025. The author successfully recovered the laptop by manually flashing the BIOS chip using $20 worth of tools, documenting the entire process in detail. Why: If you own a Framework 13 AMD 7040, you should avoid BIOS 3.20 until Framework acknowledges the flashing failures, and you can save hundreds of dollars by using this $20 SPI flashing method if already bricked. hardware framework-laptop bios-recovery postmortem

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18 Aug 2026, 9:18 PM

Hacker News

7.5

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

A Framework 13 AMD 7040 series laptop was bricked by BIOS update 3.20, and Framework support offered no fix outside of buying a CA$500 replacement motherboard despite widespread reports of the same issue since March 2025. The author successfully recovered the laptop by manually flashing the BIOS chip using $20 worth of tools, documenting the entire process in detail.

Why: If you own a Framework 13 AMD 7040, you should avoid BIOS 3.20 until Framework acknowledges the flashing failures, and you can save hundreds of dollars by using this $20 SPI flashing method if already bricked.