Windows 8.1 Pro will not boot after clean install!

Hello all recently went from a Win7pro to Win8.1pro I did a clean install and formatted my HDD just last night. Woke up this morning my machine was turned off I had let it stay on this night as I was installing updates for it. So i turned on the computer
and got nothing let it sit for about 30 min and still got nothing and but nothing im talking just a blank screen. I then did a "hard shutdown(just pressed power button till it turned off the computer)" When I tried to turn it back on again this time
i got the ASUS Sabertooth X58 splash screen to enter bios or load boot devices so was kinda excited. However if i try to enter this BIOS it sits on another screen (American Megatrends) just saying entering setup... Same goes for the Boot Devices page. So let
me back up for just a sec, After I did the clean install it worked fine for about a couple hours I had time to install AVG and Spybot Search and Destroy and then went to bed and let it do updates. I run Win8.1Pro at school and work and have never had
this problem any suggestions?

let it sit for about 30 min and still got nothing
I then did a "hard shutdown(just pressed power button till it turned off the computer)"
That may not have been long enough. But a "hard shutdown" would definitely have been construed as a problem due to the update.
Asus apparently is a known problem case...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/usbcoreblog/archive/2013/10/19/help-after-installing-windows-8-1-the-superspeed-ports-of-my-asus-system-don-t-work.aspx
Link courtesy Darrell Gorter [MSFT] found here
"Windows 8 Keyboard and mouse not working"
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprohardware/thread/06e9b341-0619-4085-acbf-e2f0133ca428?outputAs=rss
(RSS given to avoid overhead of opening long thread for IE users)
Note that there may be useful tips for you in both of those threads' comments.
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let it sit for about 30 min and still got nothing
I then did a "hard shutdown(just pressed power button till it turned off the computer)"
That may not have been long enough. But a "hard shutdown" would definitely have been construed as a problem due to the update.
Asus apparently is a known problem case...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/usbcoreblog/archive/2013/10/19/help-after-installing-windows-8-1-the-superspeed-ports-of-my-asus-system-don-t-work.aspx
Link courtesy Darrell Gorter [MSFT] found here
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprohardware/thread/06e9b341-0619-4085-acbf-e2f0133ca428?outputAs=rss
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