As far as i know, no virus can really **** a computer up.
And i really mean it, they can make a mess that's true.
But only if the components are really low qualit they may hurt themselves.
But directly a virus cannot make any harm to the hardware.
At least i can say it surely for modern laptops (that obviously have high quality components).
They cannot do anything unreversible or nothing that can't be solved.
And for the case of the bios flashes and cmos stuff, in most computers if the cmos is ****ed up, the still run after some 2 minutes.
and well some bios flashes were made cheap, so they only supported 2 flashes so if you **** the 2nd flash then the computer is "irreparable" or you could replace the chip but i don't think you can. But that mistake is not precisaly a software damagind components, because event own mistakes like using damaged disk containing the bios updates, could make this.
But in modern computers suck like 2000 --> i am almost sure this won't happen.
that's it.