It is an asus m/board and good video card/memory, etc. I will post pc config shortly, as I am not home right now to validate motherboard, memory, etc. But it looks like Windows 7 may have some power management issues. If I find out more with experimentation, I will post it out here. I suspect it has something to do with my 326mb video card, or the monitor itself. I shut off the power down monitor setting and set sleep to never until I can figure out why putting the monitor to sleep locks up the pc. Then I hit the reset button after hitting the power button again, it reset, posted, and booted into windows. I strafed every key on the keyboard, no response. Pressed power button on pc, no post beeps, no monitor, nada! Would no longer boot by pressing power button.
Keyboard would not wake up, monitor would not come on.
Came back, everything was off, and my blue power led was flashing on the pc. Windows 7 powers down monitor, pc becomes locked and unbootable! My pc did a similar thing after the initial load. PC hangs after monitor goes to sleep, won't reboot