BIOS upgrade failed screen blank now

Following is the problem:
Problem started when :- Think Vintage pop up to update BIOS and I said
yes and it could not complate it.
Now I am getting blank screen Power , battery, (Z) indicators are working (Some sound from drive if I put cd ).
Please help me it is very urgent
I brought laptop T61 -7658-cto from USA and now I am
in UK and the notebook is not booting. I try to contact your technical
contacts but no reply.
Is there a way to fix this problem without sending it to US
Thanks in advance
Dijo

that would probably require a motherboard replacement, not sure whether depot can reflash your bios. Since your machine is a CTO then you would have to send it back to USA for service. Call Lenovo service in USA log a service call, then courier the machine back to the depot, after fixing it they will courier it back to you i think.

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