thanks for your warm welcome, and yes it was the PASTE under the old heatsink.
I just purchased a Antec 3000+ CPU Cooling Solution (Heatsink/Fan)
now it's down to 103* F, from 189*F
the system booted up, with the ram running at 200 Mhz, like it should be. My PC is alittle iffy, but works.
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