X121e BIOS bug, help !

Hello,
I'm a french customer but I post here hopping to have more quick replies.
Firstly I hope my english is not as bad as i think it is. And thanks for the help, really.
So here is my problem : yesterday I just wanted to make the rescue CD of Windows in case of something goes wrong. Nothing anormal. So I installed Rescue and Recovery lenovo software. It didn't work, i got an error : code 6. So i just gave up on making those CDs. I went back to work... for hours.. nothing went wrong. I shutdowned my computer to go to eat.
But when i got back and i started it up, the computer was freezed to the Constructor (Lenovo) start screen. And there is nothing I can do ! There is the little sentence which tells me to Press Enter to interrupt Normal Startup but I doesn't work !
I tried to unplug battery, A/C cable etc... none of those things worked. I don't understand why is this happenning. I can heard my hard drive work etc... but it doesn't boot. It is freezed on the Thinkpad Start Screen.
I Just bought this x121e ADM Fusion E350 last summer (11/08), i'm really dissapointed
And i really need a computer for this comming month. I hope you can help me with it, that would be so awesome.
Today i called Lenovo Support (in France of course) and they told me to send back the computer but i won't have it back until one week...
The woman told me to unplug battery and cable and to press the PowerOn button for 30 seconds. I did it during 60 seconds and i swhitched on again but it didn't work.
She also told me that she was gonna send me by email a proccedure to reset the BIOS unplugging the little BIOS battery but she didn't send me anything...
I'm dissapointed of Lenovo, when i bought it, the ship took one enterely month, and now it starts to fail after only three months. I hope i will not have to my comptuter back there.
Thanks for your support.
I hope you managed to understand me (french people are not good in english it is well-known )

Your English is great; a lot better than my intermediate level French .
You should check to see if it is a hardware problem or a software problem. Take out the hard drive and see if it boots.
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/0a96013_01.pdf
If that doesn't work, take out all RAM modules. WHen you boot it, it might make a 1-3-3-1 beep combination.
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