P35 Neo 2 & 8400 no post

Hi all,
I post here through desparation.  I built this PC 3 weeks ago, and it's worked like a dream.  It boots 'twice' on startup, but I know that's normal.  I didn't update the BIOS from teh stock 1.6 it arrived with, as I had no need as things were smooth.
2 days ago the Power supply to the PC was turned off at the wall whilst the PC was on.  i.e ungracious stop.  I don't have a UPS.
I turned the power back on 2 minutes later.  The PC cycled, power up, fans started, no screen post, PC shuts down.  Repeats indefinitely.
I opened her up and checked the LED strip.  It hung on the Processor test (red green green red), which follows the memory test which passed.   I say it hung, but it actually faile there and started the boot sequence again.
I reset the CMOS using the onboard button.  Waited 1 hour.  Retried bootup, no change.   I moved memory around all four sockets but there was no issue with it, single stick in use now only to reduce issues.  I removed Hard Drive and DVD, no difference.  (Actually the BIOS sequence isn't getting that far.)  Reseated CPU.
This morning, 8 hours since last tried it, I booted up the PC and it worked!  NO changes or CMOS change since the night before.  I gave it 5 minutes, testing the PSU by running games, Video encoding, utorrent etc.  All worked.  I told XP to restart the system, and the boot sequence began failing again.  I haven't got it to boot again since, even with more button-CMOS resets etc.  ONE difference: now it does actually hang on the Processor test and goes no further, no reboot repeating sequence.
I'm running out of ideas, I come here grateful for any help and advice that anyone can offer.  I don't have any other PC here to swap/test components, and I don't think it's fair to ask friends to pull apart their own PC's to test my own components individually.....
My system specs are:
- P35 Neo 2 (board version 1.2)
- BIOS v 1.6
- Antec TruePower Trio PSU 650W.
- Wolfdale 45nm E8400 cpu
- 2 * 1Gig Corsair XMS2 TwinX DDR2 6400  (800Mhz) CL2 4-4-4-12
- Stock Cooler
- No overclock, ever
- Default BIOS settings, zero tweaking. 
- 1* PATA Hard drive (ie IDE connected).
- Saphire ATI 3870 GPU
- Some OEM DVD burner.
- Windows XP home SP2.
 

Hi,
My 'good news' post now!
I did a battery-out CMOS reset as suggested, with a nice long wait and full power 'clean'.  The PC did keep hanging at the CPU tyest part of the BIOS startup.  Then, completely by chance, I pressed the spacebar.  The PC proceeded to boot-up!    This made me think of your post and the fact that the 1.8 BIOS update does say something about sleep mode S3.  I vaguely remember that PC's can be set to 'wake-up' on mouseclick, keyboard action etc (although I never personally use those features).
I left the PC to run stably for 340 mins and then updated the BIOS to the version 1.8 (I used windows Liveupdate, a bit risky I know, but I had no idea if this post was a one-off fluke so wanted to do it whilst I had some control).
Bingo, this seemed to have sorted it!   Many tests later, shutdowns and restarts and I'm very happy again.
So the problem seemed to be that this unplanned power-off dropped the PC into a 'sleep state' (S3?) , which si a known problem with E8400 CPU's on earlier BIOS releases.
For anyone else finding this thread, if your PC is stuck not posting, then hit your spacebar just in case it helps.  I wish I'd done that 2 days earlier...
Thanks for your helpful posts guys, happy computing!

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    Quote from: daburn3d on 28-July-10, 19:26:20
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