Startup in standby mode????

[Mulga]

Duron 800
Asus A7V133 (2 weeks old)
384 MB SDRAM
NVIDIA TNT2 Model 64
Win 98 SE

Switched the system on this morning and walked away to do other things while it booted up, came back after about 5 mins and found it in standby mode (flashing green lights on monitor and case power led). Quick jab on the power button and it recommenced the boot process. It had gone through the POST etc and processed the autoexec.bat and done its virus scan (PC-cillin) before going into standby, when it restarted it was just starting to load the GUI. It completed the boot normally and appears to have no problems. Have done several cold boots since and it starts normally every time. All power saving functions are disabled both in the BIOS and Windows.
Not really a worry but interesting, anybody had a similar experience or any ideas? Power glitch? Windoze undocumented feature?

 

[Jakespeare]

I know exactly what happened:

After you left, your cat jumped up on the Desk and hit the F8 key on the keyboard, just to screw with you.


Seriously though, I have watched computers boot up Way over 5000++ times,,,,, and have seen some strange behavior out of normally perfectly working computers. Aborational behavior from these complex machines isn't all that unheard of, and to be able to speculate on this instance would only be that: Speculation.

Are your RAM chips all matched ? ( I know that they probably are not, because you have 384). How mismatched are they ? This causes "funny" behavior sometimes.

 

[Mulga]

The cat idea may not be as silly as it sounds...
You are probably right about the RAM, I have 2 sticks of no name, 256 and 128. Also have since discovered a faulty CDROM drive, these can do strange things at times.