Was just listening to Critical Glitch podcast, and they mentioned bricking. Their version was that it was basically a software issues. A bricked cyberdeck was not literally fried, but basically had its operating system corrupted. The repair is not getting out a soldering gun an reattaching wires, but was more of an issue of flash the bios, re-install the OS, reconfigure the command options, etc. For that you wouldn't need to break out the bone saw, just plug into a datajack or maybe even fix it wirelessly if they can get the bios to reset.