about a week ago i was asked to build a compy for my grandmother. i went on and ordered all the parts and received them in the mail today. while building everything was going smooth and it NEVER goes that way. so anyways i finally get everything working and i figured i'd start it up to make sure everything was working since i didn't know where my xp pro cd was. when i started it up i looked through the BIOs to get familiar with where everything was at. i finally found the temp monitors and noticed my cpu temperature was at 187 degrees ferenheit (something like 97 or so in Celsius i can't remember) so i shut down immediatly in hopes that the system was ok. i pulled off the heatsink and noticed the thermal paste on the heatsink (the kind that comes pre-applied) hadn't even made an attempt to stick to the cpu. i dug through my room and found my last bit of thermal paste and stuck it on and restarted the computer to check the thermal readings. before i got a chance to go to the BIOs i got a message saying "your cpu ratios have been changed or reset please save them in your CMOS settings" i went into the CMOS and checked everythign out and found nothing out of place so i checked my temperatures and they were down to 105 ferenheit(1 porblem under control) now that i think i have everything right i put in my xp disk which i found while looking for my thermal paste and restarted. when i restarted i got "floppy drive error #40" and i don't even have a floppy installed.. so i i checked all my wires and made sure everything was wired right which it seems to be but i still can't get the cd-drive to read the xp cd. i tried using a linux cd to check and see if it was the cd causing problems and it failed as well. does anyone have any ideas on what i might do to fix this? thanks in advance
in addition to all this i have noticed if i don't turn my power supply off the hsf will randomly turn on and off..not sure if this is a problem with the hsf or if the cpu is just to hot or what......
in addition to all this i have noticed if i don't turn my power supply off the hsf will randomly turn on and off..not sure if this is a problem with the hsf or if the cpu is just to hot or what......