New Macbook air now paper weight after bootcamp install

I just got my brand new Macbook air with i7, 8G, 500G SSD and immediately ran bootcamp to install my fresh retail DVD full version of Windows 8 pro. Here is what I did such that now it won't even turn on.
1. Ran Update to ensure all Mac software was up to date.
2. Ran Bookcamp and selected to install from external drive.
3. Set partition to 100G Mac and 400G windows
4. Installed Windows - no problem.
5. Can boot from either MAC or Windows. All well except need drivers for windows.
6. Installing Windows drivers from bootcamp just takes forever. Aborted this method.
7. Downloaded latest version 5.0.5033 bootcamp drivers from Apple.
8. Transfered drivers to my FAT32 USB stick.
9. Restarted in Windows.
10. Tried to run setup in bootcamp folder. Says computer not supported.
11. Used Command prompt as Administrator to run bootcamp.msi.
12. Seems to be installing drivers OK but then oops an error and says it must restart.
13. Computer shuts down to never to be on again.
What happened?

if you cant hold down option key on powerup and wipe the SSD.  and wifi back the system as new.  i know no other option than giving a appt to apple store genius bar for assit
do you have a bootable copy on external you can restore from??

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