Won't Boot from recovery disc

First let me say thank you in advance for any light you might be able to shed on my problem. Here's the problem -
I have a Satellite x205-Sli. I got an email for a BIOS update so followed the link and proceeded to install. After trying twice, I kept getting a "not responding" message during installation. I quit and went into excel. I find that my keyboard is not working. I decide to do a system restore and roll back to a time prior to last updates. I go to the kitchen and come back to find a grey screen. Nothing is moving, everything appears stuck. I try to shut down and restart. Hard drive will not boot. I get recovery disc and try to boot. Still no luck. This is where I am stuck. I am unsure if my holding down "C" to start from the recovery disc is not being recognized because the keyboard was not working or if there is another issue. All I know is I cannot get my system to boot at all. Any ideas or help out there?
Thanks a ton!!!

Try repeatedly pressing F2 immediately after pressing the power button and see if it will at least take you to the laptops BIOS screen (usually blue with a lot of hardware options). If you can do this, you could try going back to the toshiba site on a secondary computer, redownloading the BIOS update accept follow the secondary manual install procedure (usually requires a disc to be burned or put on a USB drive). By not completely loading the BIOS update correctly, you may have corrupted your BIOS firmware which is the essential hard coded software on the motherboard that tells the system how to initially load everything before handing it all off to Windows when windows starts. All that "start up" form the BIOS is what happens with the laptops POSTs or shows you the "Toshiba" screen initially for 3 to 5 seconds as soon as you turn the system on. Let me know if this helps.

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