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To: dayglored

How ‘bricked’ is bricked one wonders...Hard to believe one has to pitch the machine... which is what ‘bricked’ used to mean...


9 posted on 10/19/2013 1:13:28 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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> How ‘bricked’ is bricked one wonders...Hard to believe one has to pitch the machine... which is what ‘bricked’ used to mean...

I doubt they're really in "Permanent Doorstop Mode" -- hopefully they just fail to boot, and can be booted from another device to clear and reload. The reported failure of a boot-from-USB doesn't sound good, though.

15 posted on 10/19/2013 1:17:07 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...starting to sound pretty good actually)
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To: roamer_1

oh the good old days when recovering your device was impossible for many


66 posted on 10/19/2013 3:10:14 PM PDT by GeronL
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