How do I overcome a frozen Studio display after updating firmware?

On multiple occasions when firmware updates are pushed out, my Studio monitor seems to loop on the update for several minutes, then finally completes with an error icon and "support.apple.com/display/restore. The system does not even see that it's plugged into my Macbook. Support always seems to be puzzled and wants me to take it into a store. I cannot be without a monitor and there is no help for that. In addition, I am 2 hours from any Apple Store. Anyone have a fix? The last time it just started up randomly so I kept it plugged in and was going to decline any updates but I forgot this time.