Compliant - G780 BIOS Upgrade Broken laptop

Hi
(Not quite a dup of: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-3000-and-Essential/Lenovo-G780-not-working-after-BIOS-update/td-p...
Please take this as a warning to anyone about to upgrade to the newest (Apr 2013 BIOS for Windows 8)
Im very unhappy atm, I have installed the upgrade and like the person in the other post my laptop no longer works!
I have tried the workaround someone suggested on the other post and initially it seemed to work, however turning off UEFI has meant I no longer have VT-X support for virtualisation I bought the higher end spec so I could run my development VMs on the laptop, but no I cant unless I remove all the fancy stuff from the VM itself, and as I run Visual Studio and Sql Server on my development VM thats impossible... all these things worked prior to the upgrade.
Lenovo need to pull the upgrade for G780 or apply a fix immediately, (perhaps a downgrade for the BIOS) because I currently have a £600 worthless paperweight and all I can find for contact is expense 0845 numbers...
So not best pleased
Lee

"all these things worked prior to the upgrade."
So what was the reason for the upgrade to start with ? It seams as though you just broke it for no reason..
Its not cheap computers that are the problem, its the people that can now afford to use them thats the problem.

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