I acquired a NEC Vestra laptop w/ a Pentium M CPU, 768 MB RAM.  It came with no hard drive so I took one from another dead machine.  I loaded Win XP on it and discovered while loading that it would shut down after awhile.  Found the CPU cooler fan was plugged up with dust and not turning. Cleaned out the fan and finished loading XP. Now it starts XP to the XP splash screen and hangs. I have scrubbed the HDD and reloaded XP Home a second time, same result. I have taken out the memory sticks one at a time, no improvement.  It will hang during startup in Safe mode also.
Any thoughts on what might make it operate?

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