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