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sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

A Lenovo Legion Go BIOS update is bricking handhelds, and out-of-warranty repairs aren't cheap

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A Lenovo Legion Go BIOS update is bricking handhelds, and out-of-warranty repairs aren't cheap

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sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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If you own a Lenovo Legion Go, hold off on installing the latest BIOS update
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Legion Go owners are reporting black screens and bricked devices after installing the N3CN42WW BIOS update. Have you run into issues with your handheld, or did your update go smoothly?
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      Yes that’s standard, as far as I know every x86 PC updates the BIOS this way.

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      Even in DOS days you could flash it from the running system. It was so common that for a while flashing a vendor’s BIOS update entailed booting from a DOS bootdisk.

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