X61s BIOS update gone wrong

[amdrescher]

Hi All,
Yesterday reinstalled win 7 x86 on my X61s and initiated a BIOS upgrade after system update asked me to...
I am not sure to which version it was attempting to upgrade from and to however it failed, it go to the step of "Reading old BIOS" after which the update utility software just started hanging and became unresponsive. After this my laptop now wont boot, i can push the power button and get a green power light but thats it.
I have gathered from reading around the forum that a failed BIOS update may mean a bricked laptop and that this is seen before on windows 7.
Just wanted to check if there are any possibilities for this laptop to come back to life? are there any type of special restoration i can force when powering on? Or do i have any other options? Oh and it is out of warranty.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[Harryc]

There are no recovery options that I am aware of. Even though there is no warranty remaining, I would still contact Lenovo to let them know about the problem on Windows 7 and that their BIOS update program bricked your laptop. I would also post this on http://forums.lenovo.com/

[richk]

Is this 32-bit or 64-bit windows 7?