Do you know *what* is broken?

Date: 2013-02-09 05:38 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Matthew, I had a similar issue some time ago regarding notebooks that got "bricked" by a bug in the proprietary nVidia driver. The issue that time was that the driver somehow managed to overwrite the EDID data of the display with garbage. So the driver failed to load and on the next start the BIOS failed to load as well because the video BIOS couldn't identify the display and stopped at that problem. So it would be interesting to know what really gets broken when that bug occurs. Does Samsung know what is dead and how to fix it yet? In my case the bug could be fixed by removing the display and booting with an external monitor. Then reconnect the display and flash the correct data back to the display. Dunno if something like that would help here. Samsung should probably know. The question is if they tell you?
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