Odd issue. Not sure what could be the problem.

[Viper87227]

I enherited a PC from my cousin, nothing special. 2500+, NF7, 9800 Pro. He just got an upgrade for xmas, so he passed along this PC to me to use as a folder. ITs acting odd though. I got the PC in ints entirity from him, minus ram, HDDs, and cd roms. All of which I had lyings around. Popped in 2 cd roms, a 6 gig and 40gb hd, and 2x256MB PC2100.

The system posts fine, but after being on for about a minute, it just shuts off, and the MB starts beeping. Ive got no idea wtf it could be. Temps are all fine. I turned off CPU overheat and fan fail shutdown things. Still does it. It makes no sence. It would seem like a heat issue since it runs for a bit, but all temps are perfectly fine.

Anyone have any more ideas?

 

[D3v1an7]

Could be the mem you slapped in there is bad or it could be that he statically configured the MEM settings in the BIOS and those timings are out of spec for what your ram can do.

I would suggest resetting the BIOS to default settings.