I refuse to give you the satisfaction of a Doh!

Maybe a gah.

AFAIK I couldnt see anything to do with that in the manual. The bit on the jumper clearing seemed to make it clear that you dont power on with the jumper in the reset position. The stuff for the bios recovery all seemed to focus on something happening on screen and you having a working floppy or DVD drive?

End of the day I now own a spare mobo for either a second system or for when I break this one lol...(If I can get it to work)

Well im not sure if my P5N32-E SLI is much different from your P5NE, but i definately did power the system with the jumper on pins 2-3 lol but i think even if you just change it to 2-3 for a few seconds then change it back to 1-2 then power up i think its still the same, its best to use the Asus CD if you have got it as it is always provided with a back-up BIOS ROM if your ever in this situation.

Liam

Yeah. As I said, I would have if I could. Its a P5B (Not a P5NE). I followed the manual to the letter, twice, to no avail. I suspect everything would be fine if the computer did something other than spin up, then it might actually get to the point of being able to use the support CD.

Im probably gonna look into seeing if I can get ASUS to sort it out and then sell it, figure a little money is better than nothing if possible!

Thanks all for your help and support. Why do I always do things like this around about exam time!

I had exactly the same problem Zpyder! for a couple of days i couldnt get anything to appear on the screen at all, not even the first beep 5 seconds after turning the comp on (thats something else you could answer my question to Zpyder lol when you first turn on your comp normally does it take around 5 seconds for the 1st beep to appear then the screen to come on?) anyway keep trying with the 2-3 CMOS pin method before trying to get a replacement from Asus I Kept trying with the pins 2-3 method and with some luck it worked.

Liam