I was hoping not to run into that problem. but I before we try anything else, do you have older bios which you can downgrade first?
eMachine G720 - bricked Cannot recover this laptop - probably going to have to RMA. Tried about 10 different brands of USB sticks for crisdisk and other methods as described in bios recovery. I can get the laptop into recovery mode, but after brief access of the USB disk, nothing. 1.44 stiffy not going to work - bios is too big to fit. Would love to recover and retry, but no joy. So, for others needing this slic, don't try it.