Hi all!

Finished building my computer. Spec is as follows...

Tai Chi liquid cooled tower.
AMD x2 4600 processor.
Asus M2N32 Sli Deluxe motherboard.
2GB RAM - 800MHZ - compatible to motherboard as 800MHZ FSB.
Asus EN7900GS Graphics card.
250GB SATA HDD

Now this is installing the first 2/3 stages of windows XP but then the computer is completely dying when it restarts to do the 39minite XP install stage. It goes to the point where you can see its trying to install XP with the 5 stages down the left hand side but then crashing out all together. Not a blue screen or anything, just complete power drop.

I have gone through the BIOS and have found that the CPU temperature is 90 degrees which is high, is that too high though? I use a Tai Chi liquid cooled tower with plenty of the paste applied to the heat sink, the fluid is flowing well yet still its way too hot. I don't understand that bit at all.

Is that what is causing the drop out or is it something else all together?. Probably a stupid question but something tells me it may not just be that.

My reason for that is I am able to sit in the bios for ages and change things, its only when installing the information on to the hard drive that it crashes. Is that a SATA problem? I press F6 to install STAT HDD so in theory it should recognise that so maybe its not?

I have tried using an 8GB blank HDD IDE - no joy there - it says memory is too low?! 8GB is enough for XP and there's a Gig of RAM. What does that mean then?

This is my first build so bear with me in all the questions, I am pretty certain all is correct though.

One opinion is the mobo is fried. Another opinion is that its XP but it worked only recently on an older computer I installed it onto. Another opinion is the temperature of the CPU, another is the settings (which I can't seem to manipulate - e.g. the FSB speed is 800MHZ, the RAM is 800MHZ too so should all work fine?).

I have only 1 stick of RAM in there at the mo. Its set up is as basic as possible - as above so no unnecessary cards etc inserted.

If you can help then I would be very grateful.

Many thanks in advance

Steve.

From what you are saying it could well be thermal shutdown.
90 degrees is way too high while installing your OS.
If it's doing ths now then I'd investigate the cooling system fully.

Give this a try, remove ALL the sides from the tower and inprove the air flow with a fan.
Then give it another go.

If this works fine then you know where the problem lies.

From what you are saying it could well be thermal shutdown.
90 degrees is way too high while installing your OS.
If it's doing ths now then I'd investigate the cooling system fully.

Give this a try, remove ALL the sides from the tower and inprove the air flow with a fan.
Then give it another go.

If this works fine then you know where the problem lies.

Yeah cool, well I shall try a conventional heatsink n fan... if that works then the liquid cooling system isn't doing its job properly.

Appreciate your reply,

Steve.