ASUS ROG Flow X13 2-in-1 Laptop: Ryzen 9 7940HS, 13.4" FHD+ 120Hz, 16GB DDR5 Expired

Be sure to watch the Gamers Nexus video on Asus, and do research before you purchase ANY Asus product. There RMA department has been allegedly incredibly shady. I have no experience with it as I don't purchase Asus products, but as a warning to consumers to do the due diligence make sure to do your research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY

WARNING: DO NOT BUY ASUS RIGHT NOW until they publicly address their RMA shenanigans.

I own a GL702VM. It came with a 128GB SSD. I swapped it out with a 512gb NVME ssd. When doing that I reloaded windows as I wanted to be sure it was clean. After a few years I took the BIOS update from Windows Updates. Since my primary drive had been replaced, the BIOS would no longer allow me to boot from the SSD that had been the boot drive for years. Years. When I say boot, I mean, 4 beeps and no display. Dead. D.E.D dead.

I contacted Asus as to what to do, and all they could do was tell me to reboot, and hold the power button down, etc. Nothing worked. Then they quoted me like $800 to fix it as 'the motherboard must be bad'. I went on Ebay, found the exact same BIOS chip programmed from a third party. Purchased one of the BIOS readers on Amazon after reading that you can program it as long as you don't have power to the motherboard. I read the chip from the third party vendor, and flashed the bios chip in the laptop to a very old BIOS. Fired right up.

They continue to have that BIOS on Windows update. If an unsuspecting consumer who upgraded a pretty useless drive on a $1600 laptop updates it, they may brick their machine. Even after explaining all of this to Asus and doing the process over the phone with them, they failed to assist at all. They deliberately have a BIOS version out on Windows update that has the potential of bricking the laptop. I will never buy another Asus product.

Laptop still runs fine if I ignore their 'recommended' update. Planned obsolescence. Such a dirty practice.