Laptop dead after BIOS update. How do I restore original BIOS?

Model: HP Pavillion m7-1015dx
Original OS: Windows 7
Current OS: Windows 8 64 bit
Problem: 
I tried to update the BIOS using this file:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-124651-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en...
Released:2013-10-08
File name: sp63801.exe [1/1, 6.56M]
Version F.29
It gave me a Blue Screen of Death and the computer restarted. After restarting I only get a black screen, the fan turns on but there's no text and no way to access the BIOS nor the boot menu.
The Caps Lock led starts blinking twice, then stops  for 1~ second, then blinks twice again and again, indefinitely. This, according to HP, suggests a BIOS Corruption Failure.
What I've tried:
I don't have the HP recovery partition, so I've tried installing both HP UEFI BIOS Update SoftPAQ and HP UEFI Support Environment SoftPAQ to a FAT32 USB drive named HP_TOOLS. I have tried these tools separately, not at the same time. I've tried them with 3 different bios downloaded from this site. I hold the windows key and B, then turn on the computer. Nothing happens. I have tried Fn and B, holding them for different lengths of time, there's no beeps, no text on the screen, nothing. The led on the USB drive flashes over ten times at the beginning and then stops, then caps lock starts blinking again. I have tried putting the .bin file in different folders in the USB, including the root, same result. There's no.sig file in the bios I have downloaded.
I am on mobile, excuse the errors. What am I missing?
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Thank you. I'm typing this from my just-recovered laptop. I don't know what I would've done if I wasn't able to fix it. You are a true hero heroine.
A few pointers for others with the same problem:
* Make sure you have at least .Net Framework 3.5 installed. Phoenix tools wouldn't generate the files until I installed it.
* Not every BIOS version on the HP site can be installed with this method. I had to click on "previous versions" and only the three oldest ones were able to generate the required files with Phoenix tools.

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