It fit the socket but it won't rocket

[711782]

I've bought a Soyo K7M 333 board PC, (in a garage sale!) The owner told me that for unknown reason it won't boot,
after trying everything in the book I gave up,
so I took the k7M board out, and installed a asus A7V333-X,
the CPU Athelon 2100 that came with the soyo k7M 333 board with the original heatsink, was installed as well,
after the hardware setup was finished, I then booted the Rig,
I get the one normal beep but it goes directly to the BIOS setup then after a few min it turn the Rig off. Here is what I did,
first I reset the BIOS, then checked all the cables,
unplug all the cd roms,
but still the same boot problem I also changed the PSU with a known and tested good one,
the memory are good too (tested)
and I still have the same problem
what you guys\gals think might be the reason for this kind of a problem

 

[franklin97355]

Start here faq602-2731

 

[711782]

If I get to the bios then the video is OK your link does not seem correspond to my problem principally the turning off the Rig which is the main issue here!

 

[BadBigBen]

It generally sounds like a heat issue...

Check the HS-Fan, if it is correctly mounted, it could be 180 degree off...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[711782]

In fact it was a heat issue after all, I changed the fan and heatsink and after a copule of reboots things got back to normal and I was able to load windows,
BadBigBen, your suggestion was indeed correct.
Thanks!