W530 WIN 8.1 upgrade Optimus NVidia driver failure

Just upgraded to Win 8.1 and upgraded to the latest Optimus NVidia drivers.  Major failure.  On reboot, the screen remains blank, occasionally shows a small flashing image on a few pixels,lower left side of screen, occasionally shows the mouse pointer. Able to use thumbprint but still no video access.  Seems like it is booting up but can't see anything.  If I force bios back to the Intel 4000 only, all works fine EXCEPT MY CAD PROGRAM!
Went onto NVidia site and downloaded their recommendation and it is now booting into NVidia mode except for this:
I am using 8.1 boot direct to desktop (old style win 7) when I hit the windows key into win8 mode, the screen starts flashing and won't stop until I get it back to the win7 desktop.  
Any ideas??

All,
We will look into the update for W530 as well.  Being a dual GPU system, I'm wondering if we are seeing a variant of what is going on in this thread with S440 / S540 ?
I'm wondering if a Windows update installed a different version of the intel driver and it is not matched?
Can you share what version of drivers are shown installed?
Mark
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  • NVIDIA driver for optimus capable cards and UEFI

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    Hi,
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