If your motherboard has the soft power management, you will need to go into the bios and (depending on the bios that you have - mine is an ami bios) turn the on/off switch on under power management in the bios. This is one of the PC 98 power saving features of the new motherboards. Hope this helps Mary Wolden Craig wrote: >it turns out that the motherboard that I bought through the mail and >being installed over the weekend....they are having problems getting it >to shut down with the front power switch....I then told them to take one >off thier shelves....(it was only $100) anyways....they are having the >same problems:( Does anybody have a idea waht could going on.....they