Can tinkering with GVT-g brick a computer/its BIOS?
Or am I just that unlucky that it died immediately the next reboot after I poked at it that one time?

@CloverChrome Were you touching it physically or did ya change something software side? Also could be dust if it was a physical change.

@KateYagi Just messing about with passing through my iGPU to a VM via KVM, all software...
The only weird thing I did was installing drivers for it on the guest VM and forcing a resolution/refresh rate change.

Next boot the machine just did nothing but blink the caps lock key.

I'll give the machine a clean but I find it weird how it just died for no reason.

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@KateYagi one weird thing though is that it DID seem to try and boot after the CMOS had cleared itself after a long time with no power???

The screen showed me the classic 502 CMOS ERROR screen, then rebooted and bricked itself again.

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