solid questions for those out in gamespot land

okay i got myself a proper cpu cooler finally (arctic cooling freezer 7)

http://www.computeravenue.ca/product.php?txtCatID=555&txtProdID=2962

bit of a bad price im told but there nice on returns so its all good. anyway i swapped out the old fansink and now my pc starts up and then shuts off 3 second later... suggestions please on how to remedy this.( i put it back in for the purpose of this post so yeah help).

i got myself some proper thermal compound aswell so (arcitc 5 silver) yeah..

question 2:

how much wuld you people pay for vista home 64-bit (canadian dollars please)

thx bump all the same for more input

Umm.... Not too sure, but it might be that the cooler isn't contacting the CPU correctly causing it to overheat and shut down. Not too sure about the price of Vista but I would be looking at around 260 CAD or so.Angry_Mushroom

Is the heatsink seated properly?

Is the fan connected to the motherboard, and did the heatsink come with thermal paste, it did for mine nd if not did you apply it properly. these would cause massive overheating issues with your CPU and would automatically shut down your computer

Is the fan connected to the motherboard, and did the heatsink come with thermal paste, it did for mine nd if not did you apply it properly. these would cause massive overheating issues with your CPU and would automatically shut down your computer

cpdowling

good question im not that much of an idiot. i have some thermal grease i bought seperate for it. thx for the input ill try again. like my pc will start then it shuts off. it even make an earnest attempt at trying to POST but then just turns off.

Could there be something wrong with the PSU? or could something in the motherboard have broken when you installed the fan or could something be short circuiting it?

vista home basic or premium, and where the hell did 260 dollar came from, my oem vista premium 64 bit disk cost $130AzNs3nSaT1On