Official g560 BIOS Bricked my laptop...

I'm furius right now... I downloaded the 215 bios from the official site for win7 x64. Run it as administrator. Got a "verify error" and after the next reboot the machine is bricked... No image on the screen just the leds are on and after 10 seconds the system shuts down...
LENOVO ARE YOU SERIOUS... You still have this bios on your site... ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!
I'll "battle" tomorrow with the Greek Lenovo help support for a free of charge fix... They'd better...
Is there anything to do before I curse them to hell? Any recovery method?

My pivate message to Mark....
"Hallo and thank you for your responce,
To clear things up. The laptop is out of warranty for two years (iI think) or so. But I find it unacceptable for a company of Lenovo size to treat consumers like that. I told Lenovo Greece my problem and they said that my laptop is out of warranty and thay can do nothing for free. They told me that even if it was in warranty they propably wouldn't fix or replace it.
I know that in the bios page sais that the upgrade is done with the consumers responsibility and bla bla bla, but I find it a litle fustrating that so many people have the same problem with that specific bios and it is stil on the internet to download... I did the bios upgrade because I had problems with a specific usb printer and I gave it a try... I'm an IT specialist and have done many bios updates with this one to be the only faulty one. It's not rocket sience of course... You simbly run the correct bios update file.
So the laptop turns on and shows nothing and after 10 seconds it turns off. I tried the process with fn+b,fn+r to reflash the bios as seen in the forum (with the newest one, the older ones cannot be found) but with no success. It does the same thing. I searched the net to find if removing the cmos battery will do any good but the cmos battery is solderd to the motherboard and therefore it cannot be removed...
If you can help I would appreciate it deeply.
This is said by someone that has two thinkpads (t61 and t61i) and thought that lenovo had the most reliable machines out there. But this situation made me really sad and fustrated.
So..."

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Good Morning @inggaro
Thank you for your inquiry I am happy to help!
I understand that you tried to do a bios update and you think you bricked it.
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