Help Bricked Surface RT v1

I need some help fixing a bricked Surface RT V1 device. Our school purchased 30 of these units at the end of last year. All were updated at the same time to Windows 8.1, and download updates from Microsoft. This one just goes to Automatic Repair and then
fails. I've downloaded the 8.1 and 8.0 recovery images to USB and booted off them to try a recovery, but it fails.
I've tried to diskpart the drive and re-partition it, but it still won't fix it. After I restart the machine, the drive just shows back up with the original O/S and user profiles as if the diskpart failed. I've tried formatting the O/S partition
and that fails too.
I've tried (from booting from the HDD and from the USB) all the refresh options/combos including to re-partition and not to re-partition the drive.
When I try to "Use a USB drive, network connection or recovery DVD" to re-image the device, the screen goes black and nothing happens (tried from the Hard Drive and both versions of the USB I've downloaded). The surface is actually on at this
point still because pressing the Windows button still causes it to vibrate, but no display comes up. I've also tried all these steps with a USB drive I created from one of the other Surface RT's that work.
Do these just get replaced by Microsoft under warranty? I'd rather fix it if possible.

Hi
Look here:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2486421/tablets/microsoft-offers-help-for-bricked-surface-rt-tablets.html
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