that sucks that they would ship a board with a dud bios
i had no end of fun getting my p5w-dh to go first time, as to install os you needid a floppy disk to load drivers, but i built my rig without a floppy drive (have mem sticks..) asus are of course to cheep to give you the floppy disk either so once i'd borrowed a floppy drive i had to hunt out a floppy disk!
was not impressed with a £170 board (~$330) which it cost back then