BIOS Recovery using a USB stick for S10-3t

im from south africa and am having trouble contacting my support center. 
i tried to flash my bios and my netbook won't start up now, and i need to recover my bios manually.
please help me with the following:
1. procedure to use my usb stick as a recovery disk, what files need to be on it, and how to make it bootable from my s10-3t.
2. how to use the usb stick to recover my bios and boot my netbook.
please help :-)

Hi thanks yigit.
I managed to contact the service provider, but they have a lead time of about 4 weeks for a simple repair like flashing the bios...
I have an estimate of around $70 from a reputable repair center to do the flashing, with a lead time of a few hours as they do the repair on-site.
My question: does the warranty that comes with the s10-3t cover flashing the bios? If not, would it be wise for me to have the flashing done by the other repair center, and not your local service provider?
(Its actually very inconvenient, as you only have the one company being a Lenovo partner in SA, with 2 branches. And they do not collect the device for repair...
Maybe if I explained exactly what I did to land in my situation it would be best to get the best help:
I wanted to use a PCI-E modem I had already, instead of purchasing a new one at around $200. My modem is a Sierra MC8755 with PID/VID of 1199:6804.
I upgraded from Windows 7 Starter to Ultimate, updated bios from lenovo's site, then tried to install only to get the error message "Unauthorized device installed. Please shut down and remove device"
I then found online forums saying to edit the bios.
I edited my bios (24CN62WW) at MOD5100.ROM, adding my modem ID where the Ericsson F3607gw:  0BDB_1905 ID's were with Hex editor. I switched the values as required, ie "99 11 04 68"
I flashed those successfully, but still got the error message.
I then read a post that stated that you may edit the POST with the phoenix bios editor, by checking and unchecking certain sectors to stop the checking of whitelisted devices on startup. After doing this, the bios was created successfully, the system restarted but failed to boot. It starts up, and then stops after the LED's come on, and the processor light flashes once.

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