{"id":819288,"date":"2026-08-19T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819288\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:54:09","slug":"framework-responds-to-complaints-that-bios-update-bricks-ryzen-7040-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819288\/","title":{"rendered":"Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are reports of users having problems with BIOS upgrades on Ryzen 7040-based Framework Laptop 13 devices going back to at least March 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the most recent BIOS update, some <\/a>users reported<\/a> that Framework support told them they needed a new motherboard, but Framework wouldn\u2019t provide it for free because the customer was past warranty.<\/p>\n

Framework\u2019s statement to Ars says:<\/p>\n

\u2026 in addition to replacing in-warranty Mainboards, we are making exceptions for out-of-warranty replacements where we can confirm a stable-release BIOS update caused the board to become non-bootable.<\/p>\n

Framework is also introducing a \u201cCrisis Recovery Mode\u201d BIOS functionality to enable a path for failed updates to be directly recoverable.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur latest Framework Desktop BIOS release includes this functionality, and we are actively bringing it to Framework Laptop 12, 13, and 16 in our upcoming BIOS release cycles for each,\u201d Framework said.<\/p>\n

We won\u2019t be sure of the source of the problems until Framework provides more information. Blogger Guanzhong Chen, however, wrote a detailed blog post<\/a> this week about their purported experience with their motherboard breaking and suggested the problem stems from \u201csome bug with the software that caused it to display what appears to be random memory on the screen, especially when this has happened before to other people for other BIOS versions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The software developer, who was ultimately able to flash the firmware onto their motherboard after a support representative reportedly told him to buy a new one, added:<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, it somehow flashes the BIOS slower in regular operation than a cheap 15 MHz programmer over pogo pins, which really makes you wonder what it\u2019s doing under the hood.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are reports of users having problems with BIOS upgrades on Ryzen 7040-based Framework Laptop 13 devices going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-819288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}