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Recovery after HP tech support bricked my father's laptop

Slapped-together tools to reprogram the BIOS on a bricked HP Envy laptop. - ctag/hp_envy_reviver

The tech stepped him through downloading and running the BIOS update tool, and when the computer was rebooted my dad found that HP had indeed upgraded him from a laptop to a brick. After a few attempts at re-doing the BIOS flash, or booting with the special hotkeys, or using a , the tech gave up and referred dad to the expensive warranty he had purchased along with the laptop. After that approach was blocked by the microcontroller's flash storage space, the object file was re-built with regular ld and included in the host_pc program.

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