Satellite U940 Hangs At Leading Innovation Screen

Hi,
I own a Toshiba U940 Ultrabook and yesterday I booted the laptop with my USB drive in the USB port. It seemed to try to boot from the USB drive and was on a black DOS like screen for a few minutes, since the USB drive wasn't bootable. I tried turning the laptop off to restart it, but pressing the keyboard didn't work, so I ended up pulling out the laptop battery.
When I plugged the battery back in, the laptop started and then at the Leading Innovation screen, it loaded some text saying the laptop didn't shut properly and it was loading some files/doing temp repair. However the laptop hung at this screen for ages as well and this time I held the off button to turn the laptop off.
Upon turning my laptop back on again, it now hangs at the leading innovation screen and stays there indefinitely until I turn it off. I can get into my BIOS if I press F2 early enough in the boot sequence and I can also get the boot options loaded if I press F12 early enough as well. I have no system recovery partiton on the laptop atm due to doing a clean install of windows using OEM disks.
Does anyone know whats causing the laptop to hang at the leading innovation screen. This is very frustrating because I have never had this issue before with any other laptops, even if I pull the battery out to restart it.
Thanks all

hello
i have a satellite U940-SP4301GL nro: PSU6SP-01CLM1 and i have the same problem, can you fix that problem?
only view "toshiba leading innovation"(like in the picture) and i can't do anything(F2, F12, ESC , DEL nothing work), is necessary remove teh battery of bios?
anybody can help me?
thank a lot.
Pablo
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