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[-] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Are there not physical ways to reset efi vars? I'm pretty sure there are

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 3 points 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

[-] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 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

[-] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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

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