Framework Unresponsive After BIOS Update

Hi!

I fear I may have bricked my old framework motherboard after a BIOS update. I reached out to support but also posting to the community to see if anyone also has ideas. I am running windows 11, have a framework 13 motherboard 11th gen i7.

I ran the BIOS update and after a while the comptuer just turned fully off. After about 5 minutes I figured it just needed a reboot (yeah probably should have waited longer to be sure). I have been having some issues with this board, though as the CMOS battery never seems to hold a charge and sometimes this leads to power issues like this one.

The board now does not get to a graphical POST or BIOS. Sometimes I have flashing red/green lights which I have decoded to make sense (only red are for disconnected components like trackpad and battery). Is there any way I can flash a BIOS from a USB in this state?

Thanks!

As far as I know, FW have not documented any way to recover from a bricked laptop after a failed firmware update.

There is a report of one user recovering by using a programmer to flash the bios chip directly on a FW13.

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