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Well, it's still a solution to problem which shouldn't exist in the first place. Before UEFI, x86 boxes were hard to brick unless you really knew what you were
by wsx 11y ago
Well, it's still a solution to problem which shouldn't exist in the first place. Before UEFI, x86 boxes were hard to brick unless you really knew what you were doing.
- JdeBP 11y agoTell that to the bloke who did it with the echo command in 2001: * http://narkive.com/yG8yWfLt.1 http://narkive.com/yG8yWfLt.1
- wsx 11y agoSorry, I forgot about ACPI :) Now that you posted this, I think I recall one friend telling me that hibernation killed his laptop. But this was over 10 years ago and I only know about one such incident. OTOH, what UEFI gave us is basically a portable and convenient API to brick any machine from any OS.
- userbinator 11y agoI found the one that described removing the "backup battery" under the wristrest. Once I removed that, and replaced it... everything came back together, and the laptop booted (with generic factory settings). Difficulty in getting to the battery aside, he just did a regular CMOS reset, the standard technique for getting otherwise unusable systems back to a good state.