Recent BIOS Update maybe bricking M93p Tiny systems?

We've just applied this BIOS update (http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS035753) on 4 M93p Tiny machines.
1 of the machines is getting a blinking cursor at boot up (bricked?)
3 of the machines can no longer boot to the hard drive.
In the 3 machines that are not seeing the hard drive to boot, they occasionally show in the BIOS boot order, but when you try to include them in the boot order they disappear.
Hard drives are a recently Windows 7 64-bit image that worked before BIOS update.
If we network boot into a PE we can see the hard drive contents.
Called Lenovo support but got bounced around... any one see any issues like this?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

If you just have a blinking cursor you may be able to do a CMOS reset to get it to a working BIOS. That worked for me. The other ones that just couldn't boot to the hard drive needed to have the board replaced, tho.
See page 293 of the HMM http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/thinkcentre_pdf/m83m93p_hmm.pdf "Recovering from POST/BIOS failure"

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