HELP! GE70 shows _ or - after MSI logo, cannot reboot or enter OS

I was working on my GE70 today. Suddenly it froze, hot reboot did not work, so I had to pressed the power button to turn off the laptop. When I turned it on, it only showed a white - or _ character with a black background after the MSI logo, and it stuck there. I had to power off and on again, and pressed the F11 button this time, it entered into BIOS directly (it is weird that it did not show the Boot Menu as usual). It still showed the white - or _ after leaving BIOS, I thus had to power off and on the again. Since this point, I have never been able to enter BIOS.
I tried the following, none of them make a miracle.
1. uninstalled and installed HD drive
2. uninstalled and installed memory sticks
3. reset EC
I found a post describing the same symptom at https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=252292.msg1450679#msg1450679 , but I was not able to locate the battery for CMOS.
Has anyone encountered the similar issue? I really want to fix it without sending the laptop to MSI, as it seems a long journey...

Problem resolved
The issue was caused by the boot SSD. According to the conversation with the support, the white dash may indicate a defective boot device.
Today I plugged the SSD with an mSATA-SATA adapter, and connected it to another computer. The SSD was recognized as an unformatted disk in the Disk Management. I had to format it and placed it back in GE70. Then I restored Windows 8 to SSD with the Recovery Image created before. GE70 can restart as usual!
However, I still don't have the access to BIOS. It keeps showing the little white dash after pressing F3.
I searched the forum and found the following helpful posts. Since I am able to log into Windows 8, I simply executed FLASHWIN64.BAT in CMD.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=250946.msg1444612#msg1444612
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=176704.msg1301051#msg1301051
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=184427.msg1323582#msg1323582
Now everything works again! I need to figure out why the SSD crashed and became unformatted, which triggered the nightmare.

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