this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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