A poster on this board had a similar issue. They didn't use any heatsink heat tab or heatsink compound. New builders usually burn out a CPU if they don't know this.
But it's worth noting that a new motherboard is usually shipped with an out-of-date BIOS, so you as the system builder get to update that.
In closing, XP "glides" onto good hardware, but you get to find it.
Bob
I just built my first computer soyo socket A K7VMP2 with the AMD 2400+ CPU 256 mb ram and a Maxor 40 Gig harddrive a new tower with 350 watt powersupply. The only thing I didnt buy new was my floppy,cdrom and cdr. After I got it assembled I set clock to run at 133 mhz and disabled the ABR (wouldnt run untill I disabled the ABR). The next thing I did was I tried to load windows xp professional, it went threw the format and copying of files fine but when it got to the set up it just shutoff and lost everything and had to fdisk and start over I did this several times but it would just shutoff or say missing install files. I even tried to load windows me and during the setup it shutoff as well and all I could get was a grey screen. I finally got a version of windows 98 to install on my computer but it too shutoff several times during the setup. My question is did I miss a step or what am I doing wrong? ANY INPUT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!

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