Ha, some hilarious news on mine:

Called my distributor and asked WTF happened. Got a real nice and competent guy on the line, and he read me the "report" they had received from Asus, it said they flashed bios and returned it.

Yeah sure. Because you can flash a bios on a mobo that goes straight to FF, has a blown VRM and was on the latest bios in the first place

Them Asus guys are a bunch of idiots really. Returned it again today and the nice tech guy at my distro's said he'll try and fix me up with a new one within 1-2 weeks. We'll see...