Need help with my Athlon XP 3200+

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thisispastrami

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Hey guys, im having a hard problem with my cpu, I have a AMD Athlon XP 3200+, my PC it's a new homemade. When I turn it on it's working fine until I try to install something, it turns off, when I check the Temp it's at 174F/77C I dont know why is that.

My PC:
AMD Athlon XP
MSI KM4M-V + 8237 Chipset Based Motherboard
Radeon Video Card
512 Ram
 
The cpu is overheating and the overheat protection circuit is shutting the system off to prevent damage. Apparently you didn't set the heat sink/fan combination down properly or the thermal pad(preformed thermal compound) let go. When you go to install a software you also load the cpu which then sees the temp rise as the cpu gets busy.

The other possible cause for the high temp would be the fan not running at all. But that knid of temp points at a need to reseat the HSF with some Artic Silver 5 if you can still use the stock thermal pad.
 
Sounds like your CPU fan isn't working at all to reach that temp or it's knackered and not spinning up properly.
 
When the original stock fan on a 3200+ quit sometime back an after marker HSF went on only to see that suddenly crap out one day. The temp went right up to the 85C max! A month later Windows would freeze as soon as the desktop was seen and the lowering of the fsb from the 200mhz down to the 166mhz setting in the bios saw a normal but slower running machine again. At that point the entire case was thrown aside for the new build.

If the original pad wasn't set down correctly it would lift up enough to see this or it may have been the fan. Either way that high temp is a strong warning there something needs repair. A replacement pad? Those can be found. A dead or clogged fan? Get a can of air cleaner to blast it out or find a new cpu cooler. Don't let it go!
 
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