XP PRO Hanging and boot problem (again)

AMD Athlon 64 (running at 32) 3200+ 2.21GHz 1GB ram.
System hanging within about 1 minute after booting to windows.
Very consistent fail.
I thought it might be overheating and recorded temperatures at last fail
this morning. These were:
v core 1.06
3.3v 3.28
5v 4.97
12v 12.2
cpu 42 C
sys 42 C
NB N/A
cpu fan speed 1125rpm
NB fan speed 0rpm

Over many readings the power supplies from the Power Supply unit are very
consistent
I have alternative processors, MB to replace, but wondered if there was
something obvious I was missing.

Incidentally, this current session is the first of about 10 that has held up
this morning, and the temperatures are considerably higher than when I got
fails earlier on.
v core has moved from 1.06 to 1.34
cpu to 44
sys to 50/56
cpu fan speed to 1147/1155
Should the sys temperature be so high in relation to the cpu temp.?

Very Curious Side Effect.
On this site some days ago, I reported my system consistently hung for 5
minutes right at start with an option to go to the BIOS or Boot manager.
Following help from this group, I eventually got into boot (F11) to find
that first boot preference was LS 120, which I have never had.
Prior to this current session, the system reverted to hanging at start.
Activating F11, I got:
Floppy (highlighted)
LS 120
Hard disk
CD rom
and many others.
(these do NOT align with my options in the BIOS)
Note: this screen does NOT give options of providing an order for booting,
just the choice of default.
I chose hard disk and that solved the problem, but as I said last time, why
should this happen and in any case why does the thing take 5 minutes to
decide there is no LS 120.
Help please

If you think it may be overheating you can do several things to help.

1 - Clean dust from CPU and inside computer. All fans and airways.

2 - Apply CPU grease to aid in the displacement of heat.

3 - Boot in safe mode with no/minimum devices loaded to see if it is a
software driver problem.

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"AT and HMB" wrote in message

> AMD Athlon 64 (running at 32) 3200+ 2.21GHz 1GB ram.
> System hanging within about 1 minute after booting to windows.
> Very consistent fail.
> I thought it might be overheating and recorded temperatures at last fail
> this morning. These were:
> v core 1.06
> 3.3v 3.28
> 5v 4.97
> 12v 12.2
> cpu 42 C
> sys 42 C
> NB N/A
> cpu fan speed 1125rpm
> NB fan speed 0rpm
>
> Over many readings the power supplies from the Power Supply unit are very
> consistent
> I have alternative processors, MB to replace, but wondered if there was
> something obvious I was missing.
>
> Incidentally, this current session is the first of about 10 that has held
> up this morning, and the temperatures are considerably higher than when I
> got fails earlier on.
> v core has moved from 1.06 to 1.34
> cpu to 44
> sys to 50/56
> cpu fan speed to 1147/1155
> Should the sys temperature be so high in relation to the cpu temp.?
>
> Very Curious Side Effect.
> On this site some days ago, I reported my system consistently hung for 5
> minutes right at start with an option to go to the BIOS or Boot manager.
> Following help from this group, I eventually got into boot (F11) to find
> that first boot preference was LS 120, which I have never had.
> Prior to this current session, the system reverted to hanging at start.
> Activating F11, I got:
> Floppy (highlighted)
> LS 120
> Hard disk
> CD rom
> and many others.
> (these do NOT align with my options in the BIOS)
> Note: this screen does NOT give options of providing an order for booting,
> just the choice of default.
> I chose hard disk and that solved the problem, but as I said last time,
> why should this happen and in any case why does the thing take 5 minutes
> to decide there is no LS 120.
> Help please
>