when I turn the system on, it only stays on for about 15-30 seconds then shuts off. While it was on I was able to check the PC health in BIOS, and noticed that the processor was not cooling down at all it started about 40C withen about 15 sec the temperature raised to about 90c and kept riasing until the system just shut off. I also noticed that the heat sink does not make any contact with the top of the CPU. It sets about few mm above. Im thinking that If I can rig the setup up so that it does rest on the CPU it will fix the problem. But on the other hand I would think that the heat sink even though not resting on the CPU would cool it a little bit. I also insured that no wires was stoping the fan. and I did apply thermal compound. I also thought it might be a PSU problem but after doing research the unit has plenty I would imagine. What do you think?
Specs:
Motherboard: MSI 945p Neo3
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 631 3.0GHz / 2MB Cache / 800MHz FSB / Hyper-Threading / OEM / Socket 775 / Cedar Mill
Heatsink and CPU fan: Cooler Master / X Dream / Socket 775 / Intel CPU Cooler
Fan RPM: 2200
Mem: Buffalo Select 1024MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHz Memory
Video: Nvidia GEforce 6500 256MB
Power supply: ATX 400W
Specs:
Motherboard: MSI 945p Neo3
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 631 3.0GHz / 2MB Cache / 800MHz FSB / Hyper-Threading / OEM / Socket 775 / Cedar Mill
Heatsink and CPU fan: Cooler Master / X Dream / Socket 775 / Intel CPU Cooler
Fan RPM: 2200
Mem: Buffalo Select 1024MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHz Memory
Video: Nvidia GEforce 6500 256MB
Power supply: ATX 400W
