System won't boot all of a sudden ???

[mkilber]

I upgraded a system with a new Shuttle mobo and Duron 850 CPU. The upgrade went without a hitch and everything
worked perfectly. I reconnected my Samsung hard drive and other than needing to install the new mobo-related drivers
everything went smoothly. Once I was up and running I played around for awhile, restarted the computer, played some
more, installed a few games, restarted again and surfed the net for awhile. Then I shut it down and went to bed. When
I tried to start it this morning, it got to "verifying DMI pool data" and froze. So I did the trick where you go into BIOS and
set "Load fail-safe settings" and "Reset configuration data" to enable then restart. After doing that it would make it to the
windows boot logo screen then freeze. So I decided to re-install Windows98SE over top of the old installation. Boot disk
takes right off, gets to the point where I click "start with cdrom support" and it freezes. I tried each step of this process
several times, but everytime I make ANY progress it just freezes at a different point. The motherboard and CPU are new
and dated 05/01. The only other thing I can think of is that my power supply isn't cutting it. Would that explain all these
hang ups? Any other things I should try?

mlk18

 

[DaveK]

It could possibly be a power supply problem. Have you checked to see if the temp on your CPU is getting high? Maybe the heatsink isn't making good contact, or popped off.

DaveK

 

[nippyjun]

Are you overclocked at all? Is you power supply up to snuff with your new cpu?

 

[mkilber]

CPU temp is steady at 41 C using the retail boxed heatsink and fan. Power supply is 300W, but am not sure if it is on AMD's approved list or not. Not overclocked at all, using factory default settings across the board.

???