Bios Recovery for Pavilion ZE-5155

I used the HP web-based update for updating the bios on my Pavilion ZE-5155 from KD.M1.60 to the suggested KE.M1.45 and the laptop is completely dead now. First I made the ROMPaq for HP Notebook System BIOS – DOS Bootable Diskette KE.M1.45, and it gave the loud error beep and RED BOX error message and would not flash the Bios. Unfortunately, when I used the web-based utility to do updates for the ZE-5155, (KE.M1.45), I got an error message showing an incompatability, (forgot the message). However it let me flash the bios anyway. Block after Block was flashed until it completed. The moment the flash completed (hp-web-flash windows running) windows abruptly terminated to a black screen. Now all I get is blue lights whien I power on, nothing on the screen. I made a boot-block jumper for the parallel port like in the repair manual (bph08402.pdf (pin 2-15, 3-13, 4-11, 5-12, 6-10)). I have a bootable floppy disk in the drive, but no floppy light or action.
Is there anything else or procedure to get to a crisis recovery mode that will access the floppy to reflash the Bios. I tried the Fn-B at power-up, reset button on bottom of case, no help. If I can get to crisis recovery, I found several other older ROMPaq disk images I could make to reflash the ze5155 bios.
Detailes:
Platform Name: HP Pavilion ze4000
HP pavilion ze5155
Serial#: [text removed for privacy]
BIOS Version: KD.M1.60
SKU info: F4683ABA-
Service ID: 12327
Processor: Intel Pentium
I'm quite unhappy with the HP web-based update page to give wrong BIOS for this laptop! If I ca

Thanks Mumbdog. I tried all kinds of combinations of fn+B, windows+B, with & with out the boot-block jumper at power-on. The floppy disk light never comes on to read the floppy disk. Any other ideas? It's not likely I'll be replacing the motherboard to get a new Bios chip on a laptop this old. But it was working fine before the failed Bios update. (I spent about a day doing all the Microsoft updates -sob sob sob- just before)

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