HP dv6930es bios upgrade fail

Hi all!
Days ago I was upgrading the bios but a restart fails and now the laptot doesn't starts. When I plug the battery charger the connector lights turn on... but nothing else is running in the laptop.
I have been trying to do a bios recovery following the steps found in other sites, making a USB with wincris, the last bios version, etc. hiting Win + B keys...but I have not been able to recovery the laptop.
Some one can describe step by step all the process???
I heard that the best solution is to replace the corrupted bios chip for another one whit a correct bios version.
Someone can help me?
Thank you very much in advance!

Which BIOS sofpaq was it?
I made no mention of a recovery USB flashdrive, but the tutorial for making one is in the ilink below.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&dlc=en&docname=c01890478&lc=en&product=3777287&tmp...
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