I Dropped My Laptop And It Began a BIOS Upgrade

[jiyeon]

Hi, so yesterday I accidentally dropped my laptop from about 2-3 feet off my drawer while I was moving my new Nintendo Switch around, and so I thought since it uses an SSD and there were no moving parts in it apart from the fan, that it would be fine, and moved on with my day, I didn't switch it on for the remainder of the day.

 

Fast forward to present day, I switch on my laptop and it asked me to plug into AC power, it seemed to have boot into the BIOS somehow. (I don't have a picture for this, I was in such a panic that I heeded the laptop's warning and immediately rushed for my AC power brick.)

 

This is what showed up when I attached AC power to it and booted it back up:

Spoiler

 

All it displayed was "BIOS upgrade is processing. Don't turn off your computer" and the background was the BIOS itself, which I had never seen before until now. This was the only photo I can get unfortunately at the time due to my shock.

 

After I let my laptop do its thing, I was greeted back into Windows 10, and everything seemed to be okay, as all my files and such were still there.

 

I'm confused as to why me dropping my laptop would cause it to want to force a BIOS upgrade?

 

Laptop specs:

• Intel i3-8130U
• 12GB RAM - 4GB soldered + 8GB SODIMM
• 256GB Hynix M.2 SATA SSD
• 250GB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" SSD

[Jurrunio]

Maybe Asus had built auto bios update function into the laptop in the first place, just so happens you dropped it after it receives the update?

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

Maybe Asus had built auto bios update function into the laptop in the first place, just so happens you dropped it after it receives the update?

This would probably be my guess.

 

Drop it again and see if you get another BIOS update.

[myselfolli]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

Maybe Asus had built auto bios update function into the laptop in the first place, just so happens you dropped it after it receives the update?

That honestly sounds like it'd be the most plausible explanation.

 

While dropping electronics isn't healthy by any stretch of the imagination, the lack of moving parts in your laptop probably prevented any real damage. Maybe some pins on your motherboard shortened and triggered the BIOS update, but that's not even an educated guess.

 

Probably just funny timing

[Red :)]

[NON-SERIOUS] A problem only @LinusTech would have...

[Master Disaster]

Possible you caused damage to the BIOS so the laptop recovered from a backup akin to a dual bios motherboard.

[Fasauceome]

Motherboard battery popped out for a sec so the cmos got confused?

[CiBi]

18 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Drop it again and see if you get another BIOS update.

I second this, do it for science!

[jiyeon]

6 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Maybe Asus had built auto bios update function into the laptop in the first place, just so happens you dropped it after it receives the update?

It's a viable explaination, but the timing is so impeccable as I've never received an auto BIOS update in my 6 months of owning this laptop.

 

6 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Drop it again and see if you get another BIOS update.

FOR SCIENCE!

 

5 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Possible you caused damage to the BIOS so the laptop recovered from a backup akin to a dual bios motherboard.

5 hours ago, fasauceome said:

Motherboard battery popped out for a sec so the cmos got confused?

This is what I was thinking initially, possibly the battery might've pushed around and some connections got shook so my laptop naturally flashed itself back.

[Jurrunio]

Also looks like Asus bothered to make their BIOS like UEFI, unlike other laptops which stuck to prismarine and white background under black characters