Re: Just because...
"...Real life example my Asus X205TA was bricked by a W10 update. One of the options to try and sort it out was update the bios. Downloaded the latest, downloaded ASUSs s/w to install which when run emptied the chip and crashed. Result its dead Jim..."
That is pants! 2020 and they don't have a non-writable area with a recovery BIOS? I thought this was pretty bog standard since the mid-90's
But it doesn't surprise me in the slightest - the one and only time I had an Asus laptop it was the single most unreliable piece of crap I've ever owned and they washed their hands of it whilst it was under warranty (only a few months old and had been back to them 3 times already).