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als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 days ago

Gamers report a BIOS update is bricking their Legion Go handhelds, and Lenovo is quoting over $250 to fix the issue outside of warranty

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Gamers report a BIOS update is bricking their Legion Go handhelds, and Lenovo is quoting over $250 to fix the issue outside of warranty

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als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 days ago
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Lenovo Legion Go gamers say the latest BIOS update is bricking their handheld PCs
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Quite a handful.
  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    These things don’t update the BIOS automatically do they?

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      No idea but I know Windows does. A Fx505DT laptop I had bricked itself with a windows-triggered bios update. Warranty covered it but I went a month without a laptop.

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        I’ve been on Linux since 2014 when a windows update bricked my Thinkpad bios

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        Is that an 11 thing? I’m still on 10, and never heard of the OS itself updating a BIOS.

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          No, happened on W10 not 11.

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          It depends on the vendor. Some vendors push bios through Windows update service. Dell Lenovo and HP all do this pretty regularly.

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      Not sure about the hand held but the corporate lenovo I was given autoupdates everything untile I went through and uninstalled the lenovo software center

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