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You need to replace the heat sink and mount for it. If not you could most definitely be looking at the last days of the PC as you will burn out the CPU. I would highly suggest you get a replacement and dont use your PC until you can replace those parts.

90C is getting pretty hot for a gpu. Open up the case and give it a cleaning (can of compressed air). especially the cooling fan on the gpu.

I would suspect that your power supply is having a hard time. You didn't list one in your specs. Newegg.com - CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX 450W ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply - Power Supplies

Not sure whether this belongs here. How do I put work from word which is in jpeg into pdf file format Barb

Got my problem solved, the CD drive was not hooked up to the motherboard LOL. Weird, thought I checked that. Anyways now the keyboard and mouse won't turn on in windows XP... wtf? They turn on during boot sequence though before the win XP loading screen.

Formatting the C:\ drive will remove the OS from your computer. If you are sure you want to do that and you have another OS installation disk then the easiest way is to format it when you are installing your new OS.

OCZ shipped my replacement RAM from Taiwan on Friday. Should have it by next weekend.

Update: I got everything working. Here is the rundown. 1.)I unplugged my old master drive now that it was imaged on the new G: partition of my new HDD. The reason it was not starting up is because it was reading Windows XP on the C drive, and that was not the case anymore. I did have to repair the installation of Windows XP in order to get into the system. Once that was done, I got it. 2.) Problem was that most of my programs were looking for...

I uninstalled the driver via the Device Manager, rebooted my computer and pointed the computer to the driver when it asked me.

I don't have other optical drive. I can removeit from my main machine but will i need to setup some things in the BIOS?