Updated BIOS. Board is still the same. posted and booted into windows and ran for about 10 minutes before it locked me out. Now will not post at all unless I reset the CMOS before each boot. That's a pain ecause the GPU has to come out (ASUS put the CMOS battery right next to the top lane).
Contacted Asus again. Asked for the cross ship that they promised me if this didn't work. They basically told me they would think about it and get back to me tomorrow.
They've got until lunch time. Then I get grumpy.