U310 encrypted w/ PGP WDE can't get to BIOS or boot menu

The Lenovo U310 Touch was encrypted using PGP Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.3.2. Everything seemed to work fine until I used a windows 7 repair CD to restore an older system image back to this drive.
Now when the ideapad starts up, I still get a symentec encryption username and passphrase screen. When enter in the username and passphrase, I get past it but I see Windows Boot Manager, Windows failed to start. Statux 0xc000000f and then anything that I do, I get thrown back to the PGP screen, and this error screen.
If I use Fn+f12, or Fn+f2, or Fn+f11, I again and thrown back to the PGP screen.
If I shut the system off, and start it with the novo button, I see a menu that says Normal startup, bios setup, boot menu, system recovery. All 4 options return me back to the PGP Encryption screen, and then back to Windows Failed to start.
How can I get to the BIOS, or sys recovery, or even boot from external CD drive so I can get a clean build of an OS?

Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llll, the thing was booting so fast I never caught the real problem. (Almost ashamed, since I used to do this in a former life 20 years ago). The keyboard was DOA.
I finally caught it when I quit looking at the screen trying to syncronize hitting keys. No lights flashed on the keyboard.
Since I don't have spare anything here, I took it down to my friends office, plugged into his old (WIN 98!!) machine and got a "bad or missing keyboard" at boot. Off to Wally World for a terrible, cheap HP KB that got it going.
Once I got everything going, I now have a new issue (hijack my own thread). BSOD with two different errors.
Thanks to all. It was one of those "until 4 A.M." things for me.
Seth

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