Hi. I have an old Asus P5PE-VM motherboard which won't switch on

SOURCE: Asus motherboard M2N-E will not power up

Try to turn on without connecting the hdd sata and see what happens it should give you the display atleast.

Tim Babcock

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• Posted on Jun 12, 2008

SOURCE: Asus motherboard M2N-E will not power up

It could be a memory card too. I would start by pulling the memory cards and see what happens.

Is there a connection on the motherboard for your hard drive?

SOURCE: ASUS Asus P5QC Motherboard

Hello edwardfuller:

Do the same as you did, only this time remove all plug in boards and if there is anything connected to the mother board such as extra fans, speakers, and so on, remove all.
The board will detect any shorts, or overloads or problems in cards and so on , and will not turn on.

If it still will not work, check your memory sticks.
Remove all memory and place one at a time in the first slot, and then proceed to turn on and test.
By elimination, you can find the problem.
If all fails, then something may be wrong with the mother board.
take care, hope this will help,

SOURCE: Motherboard P5PE-VM doens´t get ON

Hi! Good Day, your ASUS motherboard don't have problem it's just that you have to make your CMOS jumper back to the original settings, it's near in the battery terminal. You will see a label on the board saying Close and ClearCMOS, put the jumper in close position then turn on your computer, thats it Good luck