Hi I think I burntout my cpu. I have a P4 3.2 on a IC7-MAX3 I installed water cooling, when I booted up my pc for the first time after installing WC the pc would shutdown about 20sec after turning it on. I thought I blew out the MB and sent it back to the company who I purchased it from. They told me the MB worked fine. Shipped it back and I'm having the same problem. Does that sound like a blown cpu? The only other MB I have access to is a abit BD7-RaidII can I pop my 3.2 in there to test it? There both 478pin. I know that the BD7 doesn't support the 3.2 but would it run it at a lower speed? Thanks for any help.

Hi, Don't know what you mean when you say you are still having the same problem. Does that mean the machine is starting for 20 secs and then shutting down? If so, I would say that your system is overheating rapidly and then shutting down to prevent damage. Check all cooling. I personally do not know anything about water cooling, so maybe someone else can jump in here.

Yup after 20secs if shuts itself down. I thought the same thing about overheating, but it can't be from overheating unless the cpu failsafe(?) is stuck on (?). I'm not sure if that's how it's described. That's why I was wondering if I could pop it into the BD7, see if it happens in that MB.

I found out what it was. I didn't have the cpu fan plugged in, so the MB automaticly shutdown. I had to plug a cpu fan in to even get into bios to change the setting. lol. Thank god that's all it was. Now everthing is working great.