2011 EFI Update problem

I just ran the latest EFI Update on a (new) 3week old MBP.   The MBP SW update ran fine... then It indicated to run EFI Update...
THe update appeared to run , with gray screen and progress bar.  It ran to completion restarted.
AND all I get is a grey screen (no Apple icon).
I cannot access this MBP  any ideas?

Boom
You should, if you can get your machine see what version your ROM BIOS is MBP81.0047.B0E. If it is that you don't need the 2.1 update, unless of course software update pulled it down. I just brought my MBP home last night, and did software update and my MBP does not need the 2.1 update. Also my MBP came wiht OSX 10.6.7 already installed as oppose to earlier MBP wiht 10..6.6
Joseph

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