I've had this happen under Winders - my son's Ryzen 5600G-based PC started doing space heater impressions after a microcode update attached to a Radeon driver came through. If I changed the CPU to one that hadn't received the update it worked again.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM Lloyd <ng2...@proton.me> wrote: > > Quincy Lawd wrote: > > > I've never had any issue like this before. I even unplugged everything > > and put them back in, and still it's not POSTing > > FWIW I have, but under Linux, so it's not unheard of. The Ubuntu installer > (if we are naming and shaming) ran a friendly 'firmware update' at its > conclusion, after which was the last time that machine ever POSTed. At the > time I wrote it off as corrupting EFI somehow but I'm not so sure anymore. > > If anyone knows what makes some Intel boards so susceptible to bad firmware > updates, or which chip is getting overwritten (are they being misidentified?) > I'd like to know. I got a free doorstop out of the experience. > -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
