Bios Recovery with Lenovo G560 (Intel i3) Notebook...

Hello community,
i have a big problem. I tried to make a bios update with my G560  notebook within windows 7 (64Bit). After a bluescreen i could not start the pc. I think i bricked my notebooks´s bios. I have seen that there is a emergency bios recovery feature feature. I press Fn+B while i press the power button of my notebook. It tries to read the USB-Stick and then it beeps 3 times.
I think my problem is that i don´t know how i shoud name the bios file. I tried IWE1.fd or IWE1IA32.fd (or *.bin) but iwth no success.....
Can someone help me ? Please...
greetings
jochen
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Have the same problem too - thinking about councelling my lawyer about that since the problem must be known to them for weeks! And the buggy update is still online!!! (Don't come with their stupid exclaimer - in Germany we have paragraph 303b StGB)
Read your suggestion here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1456355.html
about the use of file name "bios.fd" - was a nice try - but unfortenately nothing more
Even tried with "bin" and "rom" - didn't even work.
Btw.: In another post I read about "PlatformName" from the ini-file and so I tried it with "NIWE1" and the endings .bin, .fd, .rom and hat no success either.
My next guess is that the ROM file within that package is faulty! So we need an old version to get back to a running state.
So still waiting for customer support callback...
Have a G560 (i5, 4GB RAM) with a stupid partinioned hard disk (was the first thing i changed).
To repeat the warning:
DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR G560 BIOS TO VERSION 25 !!!  IT MAY CRASH YOUR LAPTOP !!!
WARNUNG!!! VERWENDEN SIE FÜR IHREN G560 NICHT DAS BIOS UPGRADE NR. 25!!! ES WURDEN SCHON MEHRERE GERÄTE DAMIT BESCHÄDIGT!!!  Vermutlich ist die Datei beschädigt/falsch!
N'UTILISEZ PAS LA MISE À JOUR POUR LA VERSION 25 DE LENOVO G560!!! L'APPLICATION EST DÉFECTUEUSE!!!

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