rodney36

pepe1914: I couldn't agree more with you. I have exactly the same experience about this.
I suspect that since the Intel "33" and "35" chipsets something fundamentally differs from before these chipsets. That is what I believe is why we are having these experiences.

The P5E-VM boards for example are also exhibiting strange behaviour. When plugging in the power to the PC case it powers up by itself. Then powers down and powers up again. Sometimes there is no picture at first and only after a while suddenly comes the POST beep and the PC starts booting. Same happens sometimes at a reboot, the PC is quiet for a while and suddenly comes on.

I wish that users would be given an option in the BIOS to disable these advanced power functions of the mainboard and go back to 'legacy setting' or something so that it behaves the same as for example the i965 chipset when powering on.
This kind of behaviour is ok for IT people once we know it but for an average user it is completely puzzling. A situation is being created now where we are receiving calls from customers who claim the PC is defective when actually the PC behaves strangely by design.

I wish someone from ASUS would reply about this and offer an alternative BIOS or something.
A lot of loyal users would be grateful for this.
I don't want to change the brand of my favourite hardware manufacturer that I have been selling and promoting for years...