T431s - 5 beeps, pause, 5 beeps on restart - boots fine - security chip

Finally received a T431s (win 8 pro) but it's beeping right out of the box. Seems to only beep from a warm reboot. Starting from cold (completely off) doesn't beep.
Disabling the security chip seems to resovle the beeps, but then I can't use the fingerprint reader or bitlocker. Setting it to inactive seems to eventually turn it to active by itself (after a restart) resulting in beeps again. Tried clearing the TPM but results in the same beeps...
Pretty annoyed that it's having issues right out of the box. Anyone else with a T431s having the same issue?
Additionally, I can't seem to access the bios from a cold start no matter how fast I press the F1 key, or what keys I press. It refuses to get interrupted. The only way I can access the bios is allowing the system to come up, restart, and then interrupt boot.

Here is some more information about this problem:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?AliasID=SF13-T0067
It seems like there is an ongoing investigation about this issue.

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