I build and work on PCs for a living and it takes longer then 30 minutes to build one if you are at all conscious about your cable management and the quality of your work, sure it can be done in less time then 30 minutes if your just throwing the parts in and hooking up the cables not caring how the inside of your case looks. Actually $100 is pretty cheap if you compair it to any computer shop around that will put one together for you, you can figure at least $50 an hour depending on what part of the country you live in, Myself I charge $150 and they supply the OS and all programs, plus some mark up on the parts themselfs, so usually average around $200 a build for the system then if they want alot of extra programs installed the cost goes up
you can try this, it has worked on almost all of my compatability issues with vista ultimate, Right click on your icon, then click on properties, click the compatability tab along the top and then put check marks in the "run as administrator" box and in the "Run this program in the compatability mode" for windows xp sp2,, they are the top and bottom boxes, I have also used this with programs and they run great..
I was suggesting that he not leave it unattended because his temps shot up above 80c while his computer was idle so for the first run of an hour or so just to check his system I wouldnt leave it unattended. and most the time you can test the stability of a system in much less then 24 hours, if it runs stable for 5 or 6 hours it is pretty much an assurance that it is stable
it does not look like anything is wrong by the pictures, but you cant really tell by pictures if your cpu is damaged or not, just try to keep your temps under about 64c while under load running prime95
I would get prime95 and run it, it will tell you if your computer is stable or not, but I wouldnt run it unattended because that way you can watch your temps at the same time with cpu-z
here is an artical about using the multimeter with some pictures, http://www.devhardware.com/forums/power-supply-units-98/what-s-a-multimeter-how-to-use-it-to-test-75111.html I would be more inclined to say it is your heatsink/fan not being installed correctly, you should just be able to RMA that part of it without having to return the cpu,, and if you do have to return the cpu with it, NO you will not loose any data...
It sounds to me that your cpu is getting to hot, possibly the heatsink is not attached properly, you should not be getting temps of 60c at idle they should be closer to 30c. Be carefull using a meter on your psu you have to do it with the power turned on and if your not carefull you could cause more damage then good since you basicly have to test it while the computer is running... when checking the connections and stuff inside the computer make sure you have it unpluged before doing this because of static electricity could short something out,, I am not an expert at this but I would think that if you are getting it to boot up at all then the motherboard and cpu would not be bad,
The guy that said that DDR2 800 ram is NOT supported by the AM2+ board should check the specs on ASUS site for compatability, here are the specs and the DDR2 800 ram will work,,, all it means is that unless it is at least an AM2+ board it wont support DDR2 1600 4 x 240-pin DIMM, Max. 8 GB, DDR2 1066/800/667/533 ECC,Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory Dual Channel memory architecture * DDR2 1066 is supported by AM2+ ,
The Case fan has nothing to do with socket AM2, so like vicsrealms was saying I would think they mistaked the case for for the cpu fan, the cpu fan that comes with the 940 is a good quality fan, I went with something different because of overclocking but the stock fan has 4 heat pipes and copper base,, and yes the monitor you ordered with work fine
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