Satellite NB10t-A-101 refuses to boot from any external medium

I have just purchased an NB10t in the UK, and am trying to boot to a bootable USB
I have noticed the BIOS on this particular model is UEFI mode only, That in itself is not an issue as users can sign their own OS's with a CA and use them, however this laptop refuses to boot from any external medium...or even provide an error message.
I have changed the boot priorities in the BIOS and moved the USB to the top
I have disabled Secure Boot option in the BIOS
I have tried all 3 USB ports as well as 3 different drives (NOTE: THESE WORK FINE ON 3 OTHER SYSTEMS a dell laptop/desktop and an acer laptop)
I have also tried various distributions (Debian & Arch)
I have used multiple installation methods (Unetbootin/Full hard install/Rufus etc..)
I have tried all versions of your currently released BIOSs (Shipping with V1.0, Jan-V1.1 Feb-V1.2)
After trying all of these when pressing F12 at boot, the boot menu shows up but upon selecting a device the system continues to boot into the HDD (Win8)
After googling around I noticed you have released 2 BIOS updates I have tried all versions of these and still the system refuses to boot into my selected device
Can we expect any more firmware updates in the near future? Is there a way to workaround this issue to boot my chosen OS? Is there a CSM option?
Edit: Punctuation
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Hi sorry about the multiple threads guys, the forums have been behaving a bit buggy over the past few days (anyone seen all the duplicates in the main satellite section?)
Onto my problem,
Just to make it clear to joselu90 I'm not trying to install or "reinstall" windows 8 or anything, I would like to install a Linux distro if possible
I have been doing as much reading as possible about the bay-trail architecture etc
In response to Tonny
+"This new Intel Bay Trail technology support only the UEFI capable devices and systems (Win 8, Win 8.1)"+
There are many Linux distro's capable of UEFI booting but some guidance on navigating toshiba's system would be very helpful
All I'm left with is this question that, "it should be possible to put another OS on this laptop" Or have Microsoft and Intel truly "jumped into bed with each other", so-to-speak and made it impossible to use any other software than their own? (I can't believe that to be the case) and we know for a fact that many Linux distributions support UEFI
Thanks for your time,
P.S I have not marked this question as answered yet..

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