rodney36

I would like to comment on your posts:

What you observed with a cold boot of your PC, that it powers on briefly, goes off completely, only to power itself on again automatically is apparantly intended behaviour by ASUS.

I have no idea what the purpose of this is exactly, and no idea if this also occurs with other brand mainboards with the same chipset.

We are a computer store and have had some problems with customers who got confused with their PC. When cold booting their PC, it would go off and they would press the power button a second time thinking the PC didn't go on, which actually resulted in the PC going off again... (And when powering up again showing a "overclocking failed" message because the mainboard detected an incomplete POST)

I even found that PCs with this product line of mainboards can power on briefly (a second) and would go off for as long as 6 seconds(!) until finally powering on normally and staying on. As long as power is not cut from the power supply, after this initial behaviour it will not happen again.

Actually we are using the P5K-VM but it exhibits the same behaviour. We use Antec cases with Antec's Earthwatts EA-380EC power supply.

I believe this behaviour comes from the mainboard itself and not from the Power Supply.

If anyone knows how to turn off this behaviour please post here...

I was hoping this feature would be gone on the P5E-VM but apparantly not...

Rodney