Even a High end P3 takes a min or so to heat up to a nasty level if you dont have any cooling on it. But if you had SOME cooling on it (your fan) you should be fine for atleast 10 min of running before it gets to hot.
If it never fired all the way up, I would bet that either the CPU was DOA, or you have a setting wrong in the BIOS or clock speed (if its a jumper type MB).
Was the CPU hotter then hell when you were running it?
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C-ya
Joe
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