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does your pc boot into xp or does it fail ?

if you go into the bios and leave it there for a few minutes does it fail  ?

does your motherboard bios has a section that shows the processor fan details ?

if you can see the temp in the bios , what is it ?

what speed is your fan running at ?

if the temp getting up to 65 - 70 degrees then it is over heating.

is the fan running slow or is it noisy ?

did you put heatsink compound on the fan base ?

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it will go in to cmos or start the win xp setup up but just shuts down after about a minute. i checked the temp it is about 73 f.no noise from the fans or the m/b. i have several fans all running normal. i replaced the power supply with a 450w with two fans. i put heatsink compound on the fan base.

Do you have a heat sink and fan for your processor?  Or did you forget to plug that in?  If there is no fan on your processor, it could shut down after a minute because of over heating.  I'm not sure if you over clocked your processor either.  Cause if you did, that would make the over heating problem worse.

 

Make sure the computer has adequate cooling!  It will shut down if it is overheated.  Even some BIOS have an option to shut down if CPU temperature goes beyond a certain point.

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i plugged in the heatsink/fan and it spins at boot. i have not overclocked,

I have a new ecs extreme motherboard with an apthlon 939 3000+ processor, with 512mb ram a new power supply and new hardrrive. I have a 128m AGP video card from a good machine. All of the itemes I am using have either come from a running system or have been tested in a working computer. My computer will turn on and I can get to cmos setup or to boot from cd, however, after about 1-2 minutes the system just shuts down.