Automatic shutdown after 30-45 seconds of booting up

[smac]

I am running Windows XP home edition. When I try to boot
up my computer it goes through the first 30 seconds than
it just shuts down. The Power supply seems to be working
fine. Is this a virus that I could have gotten? I can't
even get into the bios at startup.

 

[Kenny S]

do you get into windows? why cant you get into the bios?
If you connect to the internet you may have the blaster or sasser worm....


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[peter]

I've had a similar problem, at boot up the computer would try to load and
then it shuts it self down.
I have found that the cpu was over heating and that the cpu shut down temp
in the bios was set at a specific temp and at boot up my computer would
reach that temperature so it would shut down immediately. Read posting "XP
set up and immediate shut down"
I have replaced the heat sink and fan to a better one than what was supplied
by Intel

Peter