I have a confusing situation here. I just built a new computer with a P4 3.4 Ghz with HT. I have the D915PBL board. Corsair Value Select 533 MHz 512MB DDR2 memory. Pci-Express slot with the ATI X700 256 MB video card in it. Now, the problem: While my friend was putting the processor on the board, which has the pins on the board rather than the processor, he accidently bent two of them, on seperate parts of the area. We didnt notice it though. After working through many other problems we finally got it together, but when I would start it up, it would shut down about 7 seconds. When I would start it up again it would say that it was last shutdown because of overheating. We took out the processor and saw the bent pins, at which I almost lost it. I was really afraid that this is not going to work, which I still am wary. Anyways, my friend took a knife and straightened out the two pins to the best he could, they are so small it is hard to distinguish between each one. We put the processor back on and I loaded XP Pro onto it. I loaded all the drivers and finally when I was done, I wanted to see a game played to see if everything would work. I installed Deus Ex 2 and started it up. The opening movie played fine, but 3 seconds after the first level started up, I no sooner got my hand on the mouse when my whole system shut down. Here is the funny thing, the power light is still on though. Nothing is running, no fans, no hard drives, but the power light is still on. I can turn the system off and when I start it up again I get no notice that said it was overheating or anything. I believe it is one of the following reasons: 1. My 400 Watt power supply is not enough for the computer when it starts doing some serious processing during the games and that is shutting it down. (I know, probably not this.) 2. The processor is either overheating, but the heatsink is not abnormally hot, just a little warm...or the pin damage from before is making the processor think that it is overheating. (This is what I think it is.) 3. The computer is blue-screening and the automatic restart is making it restart but instead it is really shutting down. I should probably turn that off to see if that is it. (My one friend said it might be this, I kind of doubt it.) I know this was long but any help would be much appreciated, I really want this system to work. Thanks...
Well, since the LGA775 socket has the bent pins in it, I'd get the motherboard replaced first thing. For all we know, those could be a couple of very important pins or they might be screwing with some of the surrounding pins. While the other parts might very well be faulty, I'd replace the motherboard for starters.
