CPU temp too hot : not letting me install windows????

PLow

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ABIT KT7A
Thunderbird 1.1Ghz
Maxtor 40Gb Hard drive
Pioneer 16X DVD
Geforce 2 GTS
1 stick of Micron 256 PC133
ANTEC KS282/300W power supply

Ok here's the problem.... The system boots and recognizes everything fine. I am able to fdisk and format the hard drive. Also I am able to copy from the CD to the hard drive in DOS. However, when I go to install windows (both windows98 and ME) it either freezes, or I get strange errors, such as outside MS-DOS Extender, Windows requires so much space on the hard drive please remove any disks. Sometimes it will get to scan disk and half way through start giving me real funky errors such as stack overflow, or something about MATH116 (I'm not sure if it is really the number 116, that's just an example). One time the computer started beeping and spitting nonsense characters all over the screen, like smiley faces, clubs, and a mishmash of letters. Now I'm not sure, but I think it is a heat issue. It came with a pretty week heatsink and fan, and when I go into the bios I watch the temperature quickly rise to 52*C. I did order a new heatsink and fan (FOP32), but I'm not all together sure that is the problem. Anyones help is greatly appreciated! :confused:
 

damac

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no that heat wouldn't be the issue I don't think. I have never had errors when installing windows and my current athlon gets up to like 49 degress and some on here run hotter.

do you know your hard drive is ok? use the tools from the company to check out the drive just to make sure their isnt problems with writing to the drives.

also maybe try installing without overclocking and bare bones system to start.

this sounds like it really sucks not even being able to get your os going I have never had this kind of problem.