This sounds like a heat problems to me. Do you have good thermal compound
between the processor and the heat sink? Processor fan working?
>>>
>>> I recently finished my first complete build from the ground
>>> up. I am using a ASUS P4R800V-Deluxe motherboard, Pentium 4
>>> 3.0 GHz processor, with a Western Digital 40 GB IDE HDD. I
>>> also have a DVD ROM, CD-R/RW and Floppy from my old Gateway
>>> computer in it. It's powered by a 450W power supply. At
>>> first I ran into some grounding problems with the board
>>> contacting the case, but resolved those, and have the computer
>>> booting up and posting fine. I originally had 2 256 MB PC3200
>>> DDR RAM from AMPO made from Wintec in the system. I booted it
>>> up with the Windows ME startup disk, ran fdisk and format on
>>> the HDD just fine, I then inserted my Windows XP Update disk
>>> into the DVD-ROM drive and restarted it, it read the CD, began
>>> to load the files and when it got to the point when it said
>>> "starting windows", the computer just shut off without warning. I trie
>>> d the same thing with the CD in the CD-R/RW drive and the same
>>> thing happened. I then tried it with the jumper on the HDD on
>>> master, cable select, took the jumper completely off, no
>>> change. I downloaded memtest86+ and made a boot disk out of
>>> it and ran that, and 1 or 2 seconds after the program loaded
>>> and began running it the computer shut off. I tried it with
>>> each ram stick in the DIMM slot individually and it shut off
>>> sooner than it had with both. Though, when I start up the
>>> computer and enter the BIOS it reads the RAM and displays the
>>> correct amount of memory. This lead me to believe perhaps the
>>> RAM was bad. I then went out today and bought a PNY 512MB
>>> PC3200 DDR400 RAM and tried that running the memtest86+. The
>>> test ran a couple seconds longer than it had with the other
>>> two sticks, but the computer still shut off. I tried it in
>>> each DIMM slot and ran the test for each one and for some
>>> slots it ran longer than others, but inevitably at some point
>>> it shut off. I'm at my wits e
>>> nd and have no idea what to do, PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!! Thank
>>> you so much!!!! -Clay
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