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Originally Posted by imsati
Wow - basically forget everything mentioned in that other Thread.
For most things, you'll *never* notice a difference between IDE and SATA, and if an Install Disc is corrupted, you'd know it. For the IDE/SATA issue, it's a BIOS setting you just need to switch.
Have you double-checked to make sure everything is kosher HSF-wise? Installs use a lot of CPU power at times; if the HS was off just barely (not enough to see, but enough to create a small gap) you're CPU might be getting warm enough to scale back, but not hot enough to shut down. This may sound odd, but do you have another CPU to drop in and try an Install? If it's quicker, then it's possibly just a dud CPU - they pop up every so often (kind of like the opposite of Factory-Freak engines).
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that was my original thought even though I put on thermal compound and secured the hs really well. I took it off and put it back on - I'm pretty sure there is no gap in there.
I'm going to re-seat the cpu because of the pinless design it might be sitting wrong, but if that doesn't help it might be a bad cpu. I don't really have another one to try, but might be able to get one from a friend tomorrow.