Thinkpad Carbon X1 Gen 8 bricked after botched Fedora firmware update

[Waldorf3]

Describe the bug I had this X1 Gen 8 with Win 11 running as it should, but decided I wanted to change to Linux. So I installed Fedora Workstation 40, and the updater then prompted me to first install two firmware updates. One was something to do with battery management, I can't recall what the other was about. Anyway, I installed them, and there was this red line showing the update process on the screen, until it suddenly shut off.

Since then it has been dead. I tried to disconnect the power and press a paperclip in the reset hole, but no cigar. Have I bricked it? Any suggestions to get it going again?

Steps to Reproduce It's dead. I can't reproduce it.

Expected behavior It would be nice if it would boot. Even into BIOS.

fwupd version information I don't know. Standard Fedora image downloaded and installed, happened from there.

fwupdmgr --version

Please note how you installed it (apt, dnf, pacman, source, etc):

The standard Fedora GUI tool. I think they call it "software", but I'm not sure.

**fwupd device information**

Please provide the output of the fwupd devices recognized in your system. ```shell fwupdmgr get-devices --show-all-devices ```

Additional questions

• Operating system and version:

• Have you tried rebooting? Oh yes, many times. It doesn't.

• Is this a regression?

[hughsie]

@mrhpearson help!

[hughsie]

There's some more debugging available in https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1eucmz8/thinkpad_carbon_x1_gen_8_bricked_after_fedora/ I think.

[Waldorf3]

Sorry, not directly a fwupd problem, I'll close this and continue back on Reddit if anyone is interested.