Satellite P755-S5120 Freezing on Startup

I have only had my laptop for a couple months now and it has worked greatly until now. The other day I got on it and a Toshiba software update popped up, which was a BIOS update. I did it and it said you have to restart, which I clicked yes. It went through the update and went to restart, when Windows 7 screen with the logo came up it froze and stays there. I tried to reboot and it gave me two options to start normally or run a system repair. The system repaid just goes to a black screen and does nothing. I tried to hit F8 on bootup and tried to boot from the last good boot and Windows still froze. I am guessing Windows 7 has a problem with an update of sorts. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I have the same story. I also have a Satellite P755-S5120 with part no PSAY1U-0DV026<ES5.07> My laptop has been working fine since purchasing it months ago and after doing the BIOS update this morning I cannot get my computer to boot. I also cannot get the BIOS menu (I can't access the F2 BIOS Menu feature on the Toshiba logo as it doesn't get to that point). It gets stuck on loading windows phase of bootup or if tried from safe mode or other trouble shooting bootups it just gets a black screen.
I've also tried holding escape on power up for 3 seconds to try to press f1 to get to BIOS but I never get the F1 option.
Any help appreciated, Zach.

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