• kautau@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There are now. In 2016, there were motherboards that didn’t properly implement the UEFI standard, outlined in the link I provided, and those motherboards would be bricked were someone to delete the EFI vars. The motherboard would never reach POST on boot

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        1 year ago

        Those motherboards have no excuse to do that. I hope people at least got their money back if they were under warranty

      • ferret
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        1 year ago

        Not really bricked, you could always use an external flashing tool, and they are cheap