Helix bios update and firmware issue

Hello. I recently had an issue - my keyboard dock stopped working entirely and I had the fan issue. I installed the firmware update and also updated my bios - with success, the keyboard dock now works.,
The first time I restarted my Helix 3xxx series.... it didn't work.
The issue I received is on windows 8.1. I loaded, logged in... and received a black screen. The cursor was there, and I could do CTRL-ALT-DEL, but nothing else loaded.
I looked it up, and previous lenovo laptops had this issue when upgraded to 8.1 - black screen, cursor, nothing else.
The issue with those laptops was with an AMD display driver - but I do not possess said driver. After going through their solutions many times, nothing works. I can run it in safe mode with networking, but trying to run standard is without fail. I updated my display drivers with no luck.
I don't know what caused it besides the apparent bios/firemare update. I do not know what else to try.
I can't even do a system restore because I dont have a USB drive to do it with.

F.23 is F.23 despite the discrepancy in the release dates. You have the latest BIOS.

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