I've been helping a friend install a new CPU and Motherboard in his system but have run into some problems that have stopped me cold.

First heres the products we've installed

P4 3.0 prescott Socket LGA775 (socket t)
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...116-184&depa=0

A gigabyte GA-8I915G Pro LGA775
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...128-251&depa=0

And a Nvidia 6600
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...125-158&depa=0

The first problem is after about 10 seconds the CPU fan stops spinning. I can give the fan a twist and it starts spinning again and stays spinning, but it's almost like it doesn't have enough juice to get going. The power supply is only a 300 or 350 watt power supply soon to be replaces with a new case with a 420 watt PS, but I thought that 300 wat PS would be enough to power it. Just in case though, I unplugged the 2 Hard drives and the DVD-rom drive leaving only the CD-RW plugged into the Power supply. The fan ran a bit longer (5 more seconds) then stopped.

Do you think the reason the fan is stopping is lack of power?

Also on that motherboard, where the PS plugs into the MB, theres about 4 extra slots left open to be plugged into.

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The dots right of the | are the ones that I can't plug into on the ATX plugin slot on the MB.

It plugs in fine, but theres about 4 slots left open on the motherboards plugin.

I've never seen that before, and it has be quite puzzled. Anyone know what thats called?

The previoius M/B on here was a AMD motherboard. When windows tries to boot, it crashes. I see a BSOD, but it goes away to quick to read it. the linux partition boots up fine, but I can't get to KDE cause of the PCI-Express Video card.

I'm assuming we'll have to re-install windows again.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks guys.