PC eye said:When the original pad went on a stock setup on that old Atholon XP3200+ the next step was to try one of the third party HSFs. The temps went down from a 61C at idle and upto 73C with a good load to 39C idle with 46C with a heavy load on it. But you may also have a Windows or memory issue if you are still not getting to the desktop normally. It wouldn't hurt to run a good memory tester like memtest.
No i can get to desktop safely, but it just seems like my computer auto-shuts down after a minute of starting (It takes me less than a minute to get to desktop). I could idle the computer in BIOS for a minute, and it would shut down by itself due to Thermal Event (Overheating). Since it clearly states that, Im assuming it has nothing to do with memory, because this is the error I get when my CPU overheats. However, I could be wrong...
But I really need a solution, this overheating is driving me CRAZYYY.
Thanks a lot!